<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=387387" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Christmas Eve</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">dawn creeping<br>o'er the mountains, <br>and through bare limbed trees....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christmas Eve...<br>amid the hustle and bustle, <br>colored lights and wrapping paper....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">families and friends....<br>the streets still alive with those<br>who have nowhere else to be....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">empty houses, empty trailers, <br>stray dogs and abandoned cars....<br>somewhere church bells are ringing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a baby born in a bare apartment, <br>the rats scurry to meet him, <br>the pot on the stove empty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no curtains on the windows, <br>bare bulbs, no shades.<br>no angels, no wise men, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">an eviction notice on the door...<br>yet another baby Jesus, <br>will he make it, will he die? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">will he bring light and salvation? <br>or will they find his small body<br>in a dumpster with the trash? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">fate, or understanding, <br>holiness knocks on the door, <br>again, and again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=387387" data-title="Christmas Eve de Eric Cockrell" data-description="dawn creeping o'er the mountains, and through bare limbed trees.... Christmas Eve... amid the hustle and bustle, colored lights and wrapping paper.... families and friends.... the streets still alive with those who have nowhere else to be.... ..."></div> </div> </div>

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