Many Thanks

to those of you that attended the Christmas Eve yoga practice for
People Gotta Eat and to Elaine Sizemore for allowing us to use the
space at Good Shepherd. WE raised a total of $407.34. To my under-
standing there is a matching grant which will double the donated amount
to $814.68, allowing $5,702.76 worth of food to be purchased.

Reading

We clap our hands and welcome the Peace of Christmas.
We beckon this good season to wait awhile with us.
We, Baptist and Buddhist, Methodist and Muslim, say come.
Peace.
Come and fill us and our world with your majesty.
We, the Jew and the Janist, the Catholic and the Confucian,
Implore you, to stay a while with us.
So we may learn by your shimmering light
How to look beyond complexion and see community.

It is Christmas, a halting of hate time.

We Angels and Mortals, Believers and Non-Believers,
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at our world and speak the world aloud.
Peace. We look at each other, then into ourselves
And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation.

Peace, my Brother
Peace, My Sister
Peace, My Soul.
~Maya Angelou

Weekly Reading

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. 
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! 
How much you can love! 
What you can accomplish! 
And what your potential is!"
- Anne Frank