[UUCP] A Personal Note - On this day Armenians celebrate Christmas.

[revsoniaketchian]

Dear Congregants and Friends, 

Today is the day Orthodox Armenians celebrate Christmas. With that in mind, I wanted to share a song that, for me, embodies the essential message Jesus of Nazareth came to teach. 

“Stables” by Peter Mayer. - Please take a moment to listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG17CVpON_A
Stables
youtube.com


May this year to come be one of love and peace... and may we ourselves "Be Love" in a world that truly needs it.
May it be so. 

With blessings & love, 
Rev. Sonia 

_ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG17CVpON_A>____

LYRICS: Stables By Peter Mayer:

In Bethlehem, a manger waits, Long ago and so today, Where hatred-weary people pray, Love will come and lay there.

And so do countless stables stand In hearts as harsh as desert lands, Rough shelters in the wind and sands, So love will come and stay there.

Love that opens fists of hate, Heaps up gold on beggars’ plates, Love that shows a kindly face To enemies and strangers.

And the walls of stables tremble so When the winds of fear and judgement blow, For a stable hopes in love alone And knows that love’s the answer.

O love the prophet’s only word, The only lesson left to learn, The only end of heaven’s work, And the only road that goes there.

Love that sees with mercy’s eyes, Holds its arms out open wide, Threads its loom with sep‘rate lives, And weaves them all together.

So may the lamps of stables glow, Brightly that their light may go For miles in the darkness so Love will find its way there.


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Rev. Sonia Ketchian (she/her)
InterSpiritual Minister/Love Activist  
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades  
201-819-6135
www.uucpalisades.org
www.soniaketchian.com 
 


 



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