[Dialogue] Gratitude for your Christmas reflections

[Patricia Tuecke]

Janice,

 

Your poem is beautiful and full of wisdom and awareness of the wonder of
life. I feel the urge, like others, to share it outside of this group and
broaden its impact on our busy lives. 

 

I am always grateful to those who share their annual letters in this group -
online & accompanying greeting cards. I have a huge binder that I keep them
in. Wouldn't it have been great if we had done this all along as we worked
together in the Institutes? I rarely make the time to do this before
Christmas. Perhaps I'll do it yet. 

 

I, too, would like to share your poem in a newsletter as a new year's
greeting to my clients and participants in my training classes - with your
permission.

 

Blessed New Year.

 

Pat

 

P.S. To all, in brief: Dan and I continue to greet life's ups & downs with
grateful hearts, delight, courage and hope.

 

Patricia Tuecke, Sierra Circle Consulting

    Facilitating amazing results!

775-333-6998.   <mailto:ptuecke at nvbell.net> ptuecke at nvbell.net

 

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Janice Ulangca
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:12 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: [Dialogue] Gratitude for your Christmas reflections

 

To all who sent their greetings, a deeply-felt thank you.  The pictures were
fine and the testimonies to an abundantly-lived year and reports of service
were wonderful.  

 

My activities have been much more modest, so I did not plan to share my
"news" letter widely.  But for the first time in several years I was also
able to write a poem - something that had been a tradition in our family.
So I will send it along, with my admiration and wishes for the very best to
all of you.

 

Janice Ulangca

 

 

                From the Silence

                

                Who knows what may come from a quiet day

                Perhaps deep peacefulness

                Sometimes fresh new ways of seeing

                Or on rare days

                A poem or a song                

 

                Because I've hushed the thoughts demanding I report to
busyness

                A thorny question's answer may appear

                When suddenly I see

                The pieces that I need

                Were always there

 

                Who knows what may yet come

                From that Silent Night

                The special child was born

                Who turned so much upside down

                He fills us still with challenges and wonder

 

                A wise one I admire declares this Holy Child

                Not born to die, but born to live

                So you and I might have the chance to see LIFE

                Running on all cylinders

                Extravagantly, lovingly poured out with joy

                

                This year if I cannot find the time

                For every now and then a quiet day

                Or to consider star fallout from that Silent Night 

               Then as I make the choices that create my life  

               I must find the way to change  

 
J.U. 2006

 


 

 

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Janice Ulangca
3413 Stratford Drive
Vestal, NY  13850
607-797-4595
aulangca at stny.rr.com
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