Christmas Poem 2010

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Friends and Family,

We are sending you our Christmas greetings from Nyon Switzerland with a video e-card, which we posted on YouTube,

here

The photo and poem are also included below. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday,

Ed & Shirley

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas,
Happy Holidays,
Ed and Shirley

White bridge in a park where we are guests

"...our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee" --St. Augustine, Confessions, Book 1, Chap 1

In the beauty of a foreign land
a simple bridge of whitest cloud
and an echo of a parasol above the two
who have paused in their journey
to look down to waters that flow
from east to west;
I am reminded that we
are strangers here,
aching to be home
even as we rest in a familiar bed,
an arch above what passes by--
and as we watch and wait
a new home comes to us
with a belonging that can only be
the whitest gift,
and our ache becomes the greatest joy.

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