Happy New Year!

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective... Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."
~ G. K. Chesterton 

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."
~ Benjamin Franklin

Merry Christmas!

The House of Christmas 

by G.K. Chesterton 

There fared a Mother driven forth 

Out of an inn to roam; 

In the place where she was homeless 

All men are at home. 

The crazy stable close at hand, 

With shaking timber and shifting sand, 

Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand 

Than the square stones of Rome. 

For men are homesick in their homes,

 And strangers under the sun, 

And they lay their heads in a foreign land 

Whenever the day is done. 

 Here we have battle and blazing eyes, 

And chance and honour and high surprise, 

But our homes are under miraculous skies 

Where the yule tale was begun. 

A Child in a foul stable, 

Where the beasts feed and foam; 

Only where He was homeless 

Are you and I at home; 

We have hands that fashion and heads that know,

 But our hearts we lost---how long ago!

 In a place no chart nor ship can show 

Under the sky's dome. 

 This world is wild as an old wife's tale, 

And strange the plain things are,

The earth is enough and the air is enough 

For our wonder and our war; 

But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings 

And our peace is put in impossible things 

Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings 

Round an incredible star. 

To an open house in the evening

 Home shall all men come, 

To an older place than Eden 

And a taller town than Rome. 

To the end of the way of the wandering star, 

To the things that cannot be and that are, 

To the place where God was homeless 

And all men are at home.

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Waiting ...

...it's the spirit of Advent, right?  Then maybe you'll forgive us for not quite having our December issue ready yet?!  Actually, our "official" publication dates are the 15th of the month ... so we're not really late.  But as we were ahead of the game in June and September, publishing by the 1st of the month ... well, it's only natural you might have expected the same for December.  Truly, we are just a day or two away from having the new issue out, and we hope you'll think it was worth the wait!