A Poem for Advent into Christmas: Love stuck

The greatest of the four weeks of Advent into Christmas is here: love.

With all the hope waking, peace-making and joy breaking,
We need the glue of love to make this stick.
Please stick.
More than paper on packages with packing tape,
But something that goes beyond the surface of things
And fills the darkest corners of us with lasting love.

I don't want these gifts of hope, peace, joy and love to disappear like grandma's frosted sugar cookies.
But if they had to be consumed, hope, peace, joy and love would empower us to live out actions …like the making of many snow angels; when we abandon everything else
and surrender to love that stays.

Please stay love,
I don't want you
to melt like snow drifts above 35 degrees....
be crumpled like old gift wrapping...
or abandoned on the curb like a used Christmas tree.

Christ’s light has grown.
Five candles are lit.
Illuminating
our way with hope, peace, joy and the greatest:
Love.

One candle for hope.
Two candles for peace. (Inhale/exhale)
Three candles for joy. J-O-Y.
Four candles for love. (Please stick, love, please stick.)
And the fifth candle for Christmas – for the light of Christ to blaze in our heart, soul and mind.

This Christmas, I hope for peace and joy: emboldened - empowered and eternally stuck in our hearts by the power of love.
Love - stuck!

Love, you are the superglue we need.
You are the light we must have to see.
You are what sustains us in all times and in this Christmastime.
Hope, Peace, Joy and LOVE, especially Love.
Please, stick.
Yes, Love. Stuck.

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