This Blessed Season of Contradictions: Part Two

This is something I wrote last year – a year that was extremely difficult for me, especially around this time. Count your blessing, and may you all be safe during this Season.

“Contradictions”

Christmas for many, a joyful afair;
Christmas for some, such deep despair!
Laughter and loving, while family surrounds;
No one to visit, no one around.

Hustle and bustle, smiles everywhere;
Eyes looking blankly, pain in the stare.
Feasting and snacking, pass it around;
No special meal, no merry sound.

We visit, we phone, and then we write;
No one to call from morning ’til night.
Presents to buy, and then to wrap;
What misery brings this holiday trap.

Open the arms, the eyes and the heart;
They whoo seek an end will find a new start.
Traditions and gatherings of old and of new;
Those living with lies willl find something true.

Take heart in this season where contradictions abound;
The one who smiles the brightest with the merriest sound,
Is the one who’s at home at the end of the day,
Softly closing the door, silently crying, “Is there no other way?”

For happy or sad, with smile or with frown;
Have forgotten THE reason this season is known.
Gather one, gather all, gather yours, hers and his,
And listen now, and remember this:

He came to us, so many centuries ago,
Not knowing hustle or bustle, just gentle and slow,
To show us there’s peace, there’s hope, and there’s love.
From His Heavenly Father, who sees ALL from above.

Ingrid Ewikowski
December 3, 2018