Christmas

Keeping with my song lyric theme I open this one with an old Karen Carpenter song: "Greeting cards have all been sent. The Christmas rush is through, but I still have a one wish to make a special one for you" So Happy Christmas to everyone a Joyeux Noel.

Someday Steven and I will be in Utah for Christmas, we're so an old married couple. We ask each other "What do you want for Christmas?" "Nothing." is the reply. Of course being in retail, he will receive some clothing. Last year he gave me a sewing machine, so I have all I need or want.

I know to many who will read this blog my not understand, but the love Steven and I have is all I need. The only thing that would make this Christmas happier is if we could spent it with my family in Utah. During the last few months, I have thought about Steven and I. For whatever reasons the love we have together, most people don't care about it or want to ignore it. It seems they want us to go away. At the end of the day my love for Steven remains true and I really don't need to have a church or government to approve or recognize it, because it's true and in the end the truth makes me free.

Christmas time is about family, love and looking beyond oneself. Christ taught, in as much as ye have done unto these the least of thy brethren, you have done it undo me. I have in recent days been remind of a poem Longfellow wrote, "I heard the Bells" the last two stanzas are:

"And in despair I bow'd my head:

'There is no peace on earth' I said

For hate is strong, and mocks the song

Of peace on earth, good will to men."

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:

"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep;

The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,

with peace on earth, good will to me."

I hope I will always be an instrument of peace.