<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thanks Ellie..</div><div>Blessings on your life.</div><div>xx</div><div>Isobel Bishop <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 20 Dec 2017, at 1:41 pm, Ellie Stock via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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<div>Some Christmas poetry shared at Carleton's lectionary group today...</div>
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you want<br>
the Virgin will come walking down the road<br>
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my time is so close.”</div>
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intimacy, the divine, the Christ<br>
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is the midwife of God, each of us.</div>
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come into existence eternally, through your womb, dear pilgrim—<br>
the sacred womb in your soul,</div>
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His beloved servant<br>
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with Light and sing ... <br>
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<div dir="ltr">If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things,<br>
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