Keeping Christmas: Fly Like a Bird

Thus says the LORD: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more." Thus says the LORD: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a reward for your work," says the LORD: "they shall come back from the land of the enemy; there is hope for your future," says the LORD: "your children shall come back to their own country." (Jeremiah 31:15-17)

After yesterday’s commemoration of the Holy Innocents, today, we hear the promise that the children shall return - a greater promise that all that has been lost will be found, and all that has passed away will have new life, because of the birth of this Christ child in the manger.

Today’s piece of art is an incredibly moving performance of an original poem recited by 9-year-old Syrian refugee Nour Khaled Al Sa’eed at the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan:

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