A Christmas greeting from the Integral Secretariat …
Today
Credits: Poem© Sarah Larkin; Image © Nath Fauveau, Medair
We are struck dumb by sudden onset tragedy
Whether a plague, tsunami, hurricane or typhoon
Bone-shattering earthquakes
Or the cruel war-torn displacement of hearth and home
And then there’s the slow onset, long drawn-out kind
That mounts the wings of poverty, hunger, exploitation
And bears so many away to unimaginable borders
Today we look out at our world
Today we are still here
Speaking softly
Asking for the strength of recovery
Today a man was released from his isolated chamber
He said it was the deepest of valleys
Today he went home
And today we remember a baby born in the cool outside air
Who was soon to need refuge
Who had to flee with his family a murderous world-ruler
The boy who would return to his people
And grow in wisdom and stature into the man
Who became a carver of wood
A teacher, a healer, a miracle-worker
A sign of hope to the hopeless
A shepherd to the lost
Today we are here still
Ready to welcome him
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1: 4-5
Wishing you a Christmas season filled with the light of Christ, from the Integral Secretariat: Fiona, Jan, Sarah, Amy & Cressida
