Christmas/New Year message

Dear readers:

Thank you so much for your encouragement and support over the past couple of years. I’m looking forward to more blogging and writing in 2014!

I want to wish each of you a very happy holiday season. Whatever your religious beliefs (or lack of them), you are welcome here. My heart prays and wishes all sorts of good gifts for each and everyone one of you–especially the kinds of inward blessings only God can give.

Below is a quote I found that expresses my wish for you this Christmas & New Year 2014. Most of the readers of this blog are Christ-followers, and I hope that those of you who are not Christians will understand that I am not trying in any way to trample on your personal beliefs. If you believe in the Divine One or Transcendent Being, perhaps you can translate the message below into your own religious imagery or spiritual language.

So, here it is:

What shall I wish you for Christmas? I think the best Christmas wish is that some holy and lovely thought may come to your heart with your Christmas Communion, and make its home with you and stay to strengthen you and help you to “walk forty days and forty nights” like the heavenly bread of Elias. God only knows the bread to give [God’s] creatures, and when [God] says one word it makes the impossible possible and the unlovely lovely, and the unmeaning become a revelation. (Janet Erskine Stuart*)

May God bless YOU with whatever “bread” you need most.

Until next time, Amen!