These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Why Christmas?

To talk of Christmas all year through
seems just an infant's dream.
There's more of life, that we must do,
and more on which to lean.

How big the tummy each must have
to live on sugar and milk!
How much the money we must save
to buy those rings and silk!

How often can the mind be filled
with the words of 40 songs?
How many lights through nights so still
can change the world's great wrongs?

To think of Christmas all year through
means none of these sweet things.
The Christ, Who came for me and you
redeems the heart to sing.

I think of Christmas through the years,
He came my soul to save.
Though older, now, I still have fears.
He's Hope beyond the grave.

My Christmas song 365
is "Jesus Came for Me."
A chang-ed heart makes me to live.
His touch still sets me free.

A shepherd's booth, a criss-cross trough,
the Infant Lord of All.
The lowly look, the life a-loft,
The Hope, that daily calls.

by Jay O’Toole
on July 12th, 2022