Advent is a season of hope, beauty, and joyful anticipation, as well as, lingering sadness and longing for past celebrations to be relived. Very often this desire to bring back the past is impossible. However, what we are able to recapture is hopefulness. The Bible admonition to …seek and you shall find… can be applied to seeking hope from past events, looking back at sadness yet discovering hope in the midst of sorrow.
This was written on Christmas 2014 but was a reminiscence from Christmas 1998.
Lights
Blue lights on the windowsill
White lights on the tree
As if this Holy Holiday is like the rest.
Someone missing, separated
Distant both in miles and mindfulness
Beyond our reach.
Now there upon the branch of birch
Appeared a bird of blue, the color of the sky
Orange breasted, feathered, round and regal
A light, a prayer, a reason to believe
All is possible, all is well
Blue lights on the window sill
White lights on the tree.
This poem was written on this date, December 5th, in 2016.
First Snow
The first snow came in silence like a thief
Yet did not take from us but gave
A spectacle of white
The miracle that transforms everything is felt
Through the senses and the heart
Evidence of what lies beyond
The barren dreariness of winter
Beauty we cannot possibly imagine
Except at the sight of the first snow.
DJ Pasternak, Author 
Lovely reflections of the past. Someday today will join those days, so we need to make them special too.
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