Merry Christmas Hampton Roads!

Hello Hampton Roads,

Merry Christmas to you and your family! This holiday makes me think of how grateful I am for everything and everyone in my life so today I thought I'd share with you a beautiful poem from a friend and mentor of mine who recently passed this year but is ever present in mind and heart.

It is called "Giving Thanks" by Gordon D. Vaughan.

Giving Thanks

Thank you Sun

For renewing the hope of another day's love.

For windows/shining

Roof/beating

For unfaling shoulder shaking

Thank you Wind

For my upturned collar

For hair tugging

For autumn's golden snowfall

For lake rippling, duck bobbing.

Kite dancing, lamp flickering

For smoke washing the winter sky.

Thank you Rain

For puddle dimpling

For rainbow propping April's heaven with God's eternal promise

For people huddling

For giving the wise old cat a perfect excuse 

For her contented fire gazing.

Above all, thank you O Lord,

For giving me an awareness 

Without which I could not accept your gifts.

Thanks for Reading,

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