The Work of Christmas Begins Now . . .

Regina Brett, the Plain Dealer's best columnist (in the company of Terry Pluto and Connie Schultz), wrote a wonderful column today. Here is a section of it:

This poem by Howard Thurman that I saw on a Christmas card describes what needs to happen next:


When the song of the angels is stilled,
when the star in the sky is gone,
when the kings and princes are home,
when the shepherds are back with their flocks,
the work of Christmas begins:
to find the lost,
to heal the broken,
to feed the hungry,
to release the prisoner,
to rebuild the nations,
to bring peace among the people,
to make music in the heart.

This is the week to think about how to do all, or some, or one of the above. It's that bridge week, seven days between the old year and the new, between what we promised to do and what we plan to do better.