We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Barbara, Mark, and Joseph Laufersweiler
I salute you! / There is nothing I can give you which you have not; / but there is much that, while I cannot give, you can take. / No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. / Take heaven. / No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. / Take peace. / The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, / is joy. / Take joy. / And so, at this Christmastime, I greet you, / with the prayer that for you, now and forever, / the day breaks and the shadows flee away. By Fra Giovanni, 15th century


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