• Thomas Traherne

    News from a foreign country came
    As if my treasure and my wealth lay there;
    So much it did my heart inflame,
    ‘Twas wont to call my Soul into mine ear;
    Which thither went to meet
    The approaching sweet,
    And on the threshold stood
    To entertain the unknown Good.
    It hover’d there
    As if ‘twould leave mine ear,
    And was so eager to embrace
    The joyful tidings as they came,
    ‘Twould almost leave its dwelling-place
    To entertain that same.

  • C S Lewis

    Adherents of Xmas are exhausted and overextended but Christmas worshipers are joyful. Are you rushing or feasting?