This Christmas Altar - Mary Morgan

[Larry Robinson]

This Christmas Altar

Come.  Come to this Christmas altar.
Bring any and all that have or have not been invited.
Come and come again.  

Guilt shows up.  Guilt wants to come and be touched by the light.
It has given its gifts for so many years.  Meet it with gratitude.
Let it be the gift that is seen for all that it has brought to this moment.

Any self judgement gets to come also.
Grateful that its job has been very useful in bringing consciousness to this point.
Let it now come to rest in this Light.

May all be invited in and out of the darkness of denial.
All showing up at the door. Open it widely.
Knocking softly at times, and louder with joy when it enters.

Who is knocking?  
Anyone you have left out and refused to embrace fully.
Saying “Open your heart to me. I am your Christmas gift to yourself."

I SEE!!  It is Christ being born.
Christ is this hand, this body, this Blood.
Let that be the gift that keeps on giving.

The altar keeps growing.
Heart opening and embracing.
The True gifts of this Christmas that keep giving.

	- Mary Morgan