Holiday Wishes

I salute you.

There is nothing I can give you which you have not, but there is much that what I cannot give, you can take:

No Heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today; take Heaven.

No Peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant; take Peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow, behind it, yet within our reach, is Joy; take Joy.

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.

From Fra Giovanni to Friend, 1513