<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Where refugees seek deliverance that never comes,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">And the heart consumes itself, if it would live, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Where little children age before their time,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">And life wears down the edges of the mind,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Where the old man sits with mind grown cold, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Where fear companions each day's life,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">And Perfect Love seems long delayed,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Christmas is waiting to be born:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none">In you, in me, in all mankind.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 4, 4);"><span style="font-kerning: none"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Howard Thurman</span></div><div><span style="font-kerning: none"><br></span></div></div></body></html>