(X-mas [1] games) XXOO Naughts & crosses - hugs & kisses

Happy day as we
all celebrate thee
occurring on Earth
of a small babe (birth).

God's new, yet old, way
which starts small & weak,
has something to say
to pow-er's quite bleak

quite bleak way to see
life all around me;
yet there's one from who
life came -always true.

So I'll celebrate
with family, and mate,
such a very great
Love's win over hate!

[1] The "X" of X-mas, started as the Greek letter "Chi"(X), which in Greek is the first letter of the word Christ (Χριστος). Old handwritten manuscripts of the New Testament would sometimes put X as a shorthand for Χριστος.

my "little" sister, Shell is Fifty-two!

Shell’s Fifty Two!  -  years old,  that is-

or should we instead say: “years young”?

Years are worth counting, for fact is

we’re not here forever, among..

..among all this turmoil and strife,

among all this wisdom, & sin,

among all this beauty & life,

among mis-(&)understanding.

She’s settling herself in broken-

-down worlds, fam'lies, bodies as well,

knowing this world is a token;

-beginning of heaven or hell!

Sometimes she needs that special grace

to love when the pain is too much.

Sometimes the smile on her bright face

covers aches which will not be brushed..

..brushed aside quickly, forgotten;

they must be acknowledged as such,

yet let the life that’s not rotten

lend strength, though may be as a crutch.

If this whole life is a womb-world

(it kind of makes sense that the child’s

reflexes are a flag unfurled

and show the way forward through wilds)

and one day we might be yet bourn

to a world where we must breathe air,

where goodness we long for was spawned,

I’d love to share youth with Shell there.

A Christmas blessing!

May the Marshall clan
all this Christmas time,
celebrate Life and
savor HIS good wine!

The wine (of the One),

turned so, from water,
-as vineyards in sun
daily do, but shorter.

The One who made sex,
and woman and man,
whose great game connects,
and brings life again:

turn our watery lives
into your good wine
- as husbands & wives,
'n families to shine.

An occultation #,
(like that shiney) Star
Sign or confirmation:
The King is where we are!

#: An occultation: a covering (and then unveiling) of a planet by the moon, while the planet is seen within a star sign; or else possibly the "Star" might have been a conjunction: (an apparent joining [close] together) of 2 or 3 planets (also within a particular star-sign) e.g.: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~mmd/star.html  or http://www.observadores-cometas.com/Star_of_Bethlehem/English/Possible.htm  or  http://www.lcas-astronomy.org/articles/display.php?filename=the_christmas_star&category=miscellaneous

A family plans to travel over the holidays, then return...

Bless you, Ellis's three
Father, Erinn, & Son
and may this fam-i-ly
be both three and be one.

Good health to your Erinn
and your baby inside
- the one that she's bearin'-
to be bourne well & 'live.


And Christmas to-gether
with others you're giv-en;
Lox-dura, where-ever,
then back to you're livin'.


The diff-i-cult-ies and
test-ings that come to you
remember to seize and
welcome as friends do, too.
 
Look-ing for-ward to hear
all the stor-ies from you
three, when we get back near
and to see that good too.

We passed a course audit! So of course, don't hoard it!

Hallel-u-yah!
Thank you to the
workers who kissed
hard work, and "blist-
-ers" on hand/ear.
We're glad you're here!
God, please now use
this course for whose
name's been cursed/hate-
-ed, but made great
by you when raised,
whose name be praised!
Amen.

and a very little man was he [Paul = little]

Zacchaeus was a little man,
a very little man was he.
He climbed up to a sycamore tree
the Saviour for to see.
Then Jesus came into the town
and saw him up the tree;
he said “Zacchaeus, you come down;
I’m coming to your house for tea”



Zacchaeus quickly scrambled down,
from out of the sycamore tree
and said “Dear Lord I’ve been as bad,
as bad as bad can be,
I’m sorry now for all my sins;
I’ll give where I have robbed”.
Salvation comes and Zacchaeus wins
while he eats with Jesus’ mob.



Jesus, he is a priest/king man,
the greatest one is he,
he comes into Jerusalem,
God’s Temple for to see.
Some people had set up their shops
(it helped their lives, they thought),
but Jesus walks in, then he stops,
and kicks them out the door!



He says “God’s house is for to pray
for all God’s people there;
your robbing means you will not stay
because you did not care
for all the different kinds of folk,
thought only of your store.” ("more" / Lore / Law)
Wow! If God sees you as a joke,
you’ll be helped out the door!