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Amanda Martin-Shaver

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Re: Confessions Of A Jew
12/12/2008 9:39:55 AM

The Night Before Christmas

Silent night Holy night
All is quiet and I'm alone tonight
Not ever the ringing of the telephone
My heart is aching and my voice keeps breaking
While tears form in my eyes

If this is the season for good will to all men
What ever happened to compassion then?
Why can't humans accept each other warts and all?
But look at our outside and make judgements
from our appearance and walk?

I do not understand
that families can put so much empahasis
on this yearly occasion
When there is so much unhappiness
caused through this day of togetherness

It is Jesus' birthday after all
Not the day for Santa Claus (Satans Claws)
Who brought this fake in?
It is not his birthday at all!

The hype that goes on
leading up to and before
causes so much stress
because people need to impress!
with catering and latest presents

Amanda Martin-Shaver ©
24 December 2000



Footnote: I wrote this poem while living in a Hostel house for
women while I was training to do my LPN certificate. In New Zealand.
One of the young single women whom I took under my wing
went home for Christmas and came back the same evening
so hurt and a wreck emotionally. She is hearing impaired and
has been fitted with two hearing aides, yet her family did not
believe she needed them and was pretending. She was also
obese and had an addiction to coke-a-cola which gave her migraines



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Re: Confessions Of A Jew
12/12/2008 9:57:00 AM

Thank you Nick for passing this around again.  If only more people would read and understand.

Christmas (Christ  Mass)  It is all about the birth of Jesus.  It is celebrated in many different ways and it is not for me to say right or wrong.  I only know what it means to me.

Jesus is the Reason for Christmas.

Thank you, friend,

Sara

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Re: Confessions Of A Jew
12/12/2008 9:58:24 AM

Amanda, I love the poem.  I wish you would post it in our Poet's forum - December is fine, Forrest will be happy to share.

Blessings,

Sara

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Pauline Raina

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Re: Confessions Of A Jew
12/12/2008 10:50:42 AM
Dearest Nick,

You are awesome my brother !!

Wonderful posts this is truths we cannot deny how ever much we try!!
What you sow is what you reap indeed !! I am proud to call myself a Christian and not afraid to spread the good news to who ever may receive.

There is but one ladder!

There is but one ladder to Heaven
                                The Cross,
That lifts us up high,
                      and shakes off the dust,
climb quickly my friend,
                     and enter the gate,
To a life thats eternal,
                     The path ways made straight.

This ladder to heaven
                     Has come with a price,
Of Jesus' blood,
                    amidst painful cries,
Oh Father, Oh God,
                    Let this cup pass from me!
Yet not my will be done,
                    Its my life thee to please.

And when it was done,
                   He gave up the ghost,
And let out a sigh,
                  And to heaven He rose.
Today we are blessed
                   for we are not lost,
There is but one ladder to Heaven
                   The Cross !

©PaulineRaina2008








Be blessed always

Pauline
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Re: Confessions Of A Jew
12/12/2008 1:56:09 PM
Hello dearest JeanMarie

I am so happy to see you here with your wonderful comments that always makes my day a little more special. I have a respect for all religions and beliefs around the world and have studied some very intensely, some which go back thousands of years before Christ but the one issue that always shows it's head is that everyone of us believes there is something other than just ourselves !



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