“We clap hands and welcome the Peace of Christmas.
We beckon this good season to wait a while 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 Jainist, 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 time, a halting of hate time.”
~ Maya Angelou from Amazing Peace
When someone knows you as well as Stacy knows me, you get gifts that you’d normally buy yourself. Many months ago, I mentioned I missed wearing a watch because all my Fossil watches had dead batteries, which continually die in short order. She remembered that, and today, Santa Stacy gave me this utterly perfect watch. It lights up, the arms glow in the dark, and it keeps time! I must have been a very good girl this year.
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