Holiday Blessings

To all my blogging friends, followers and visitors, - I wish you all the most wonderful, peaceful and blessed holiday season!! You all mean the world to me, I love this blogging community!

Christmas Thoughts:

If we endeavor to celebrate Christmas in a true way

There should be within us a Shepherd and a King. 

A Shepherd who can listen out for what

Others cannot hear, who with all his powers of Devotion

Lives immediately under the starry heavens;

To whom the Angels are happy

To reveal themselves.

A King, who knows how to give,

Who does not allow himself to be

Guided by anything other than the

Star in the Heights: who sets out

To place all his gifts before the crib.

But beside the Shepherd and the King,

There must also be a child within us

Who now wishes to be born!

(This is an original piece created with soft chalk board chalks and pastels on white paper: Draw 3 layers of white chalk all over the paper first and then draw your picture with soft pastels (not Pan Pastels!) A bit of  toilet tissue helps to blend it all together and some cotton buts will lift colour if things have gone wrong. A very forgiving technique!)