{"id":5154,"date":"2011-12-25T07:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T11:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2011-12-26T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:48:28","slug":"take-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5154","title":{"rendered":"Take Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the First Day of Christmas, a detail of a larger painting (part of a long-ongoing series, on which more later), and an excerpt from a letter written by a 16th century monk to a friend.<\/p>\n

I wish you all a heavenly, peaceful, and joyful Christmas season.<\/p>\n

\"FirstDay(detail)\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I salute you.<\/p>\n

There is nothing I can give you which you have not,
\nbut there is much that while I cannot give, you can take.<\/p>\n

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
\nTake heaven.<\/p>\n

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
\nTake peace.<\/p>\n

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
\nTake joy.<\/p>\n

And so at this Christmastime, I greet you, with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.<\/p>\n

\u2014Fra Giovanni, 1513<\/span><\/p>\n

\"CakeBerries2\"<\/a>Ann<\/p>\n

\"CakeChocCurls2\"<\/a>Stephanie<\/p>\n

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