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Fra Giovanni's Christmas Greeting (c.1513)
"Winter Scene"
Warm truth for a chilly season from Fra Giovanni, a 16th century monk. Take heed!
A Christmas Greeting
I salute you. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much which, while I cannot give, you can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven.
No peace lies in the future that is not hidden in this present instance. Take Peace.
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.Take Joy.
And so at this Christmastime I greet you with the prayer that for you now and forever the day breaks and the shadows flee away.
Fra Giovanni, 1513
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