Today is Sunday, December 30th, 2007; Karen's Korner #1220

(Making up for the Wednesday edition missed this past week!)
 
Chapter four from the small book titled "The First Gift of Christmas" by Richard Paul Evans:
 
THE NIGHT
 
"Is it enough?
 
Christmas Night.
 
As the evening falls like the curtain on a long-awaited show,
I hold my daughter one last time this season,
In the warm bath of the Christmas-tree lights.
And I wonder.
 
Did the Yuletide parties and gatherings fill her with a sense of family?
Did the Christmas rituals unite her in a shared commonality with her fellowmen?
Did the music of Christmas heal her of a cynical world
and inspire her with hopes of something greater?
 
Did the gifts she shared teach her that the greatest gifts are received in giving?
Did the once-wrapped presents of Christmas remind her of a great gift
given many Christmases ago?
And I wonder.
 
Is there enough awe in my child, enough magic left, to save a world?
For within my heart I lament a great truth--
That the only promise of childhood is that it will end.
And I wonder what I have given her to take its place.
 
And is it enough?
 
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