Give us faith in ourselves and faith in our fellow man...
Then the treasures and beauties of life that make man happy
Will spring from an inexhaustible source.
And at Christmas,when the hearts of the world swell in joyous Celebration,
Let us cast aside the pretense of sturdy men,
And live, if only for a day,
In the hope and joy we knew as children.
A Christmas prayer by an unknown author
That's from the liner notes from the Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Christmas Album, which gets a lot of use from me about this time every year. I thought the poem was very poignant given the year we've all been through...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
Dan