Make your house fair as you are able,
trim the hearth and set the table.
People, look east, and sing today:
Love, the Guest, is on the way.
---Eleanor Farjeon, 1928
I know about some of the Christmas decorations out there.
I've driven around. And I've cruised around FB too, and Buzzfeed. I've seen
Santas, and snowmen, and Nativity scenes (sometimes all in one yard). I've seen white lights, multi-colored lights,
twinkle lights, chaser lights, net lights, all orange and blue lights (here in
Auburn Tiger territory, not an uncommon sight).
I've seen tasteful and tacky, with a few stops in-between.
There is something in us, a good number of us anyway, that
pokes and prods at us to pull out a Christmas sweater (or ten) for our house
this time of year. Is it because we're happy? to make us happy? to convince
other people we're happy? a bit of a combination of everything I've thought of,
and more?
In this lovely poem from Eleanor Farjeon, we are reminded
that we are preparing for the arrival of a special Guest, with all the
'trimming' that might bring. When we invite Love in to stay, what kind of
decorating might we do to our hearts? How would we set the table of our lives
to welcome Love? What would we do to prepare a place for this most important
Guest?
People, look east. The time is near…
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