Christmas Eve 2008

Many years ago at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, poet monk Thomas Merton wrote these words :

Go tell the earth to shake
And tell the thunder
To wake the sky.
And tear the clouds apart
Tell my people to come out
And wonder

Where the old world is gone
For a new world is born
And all my people
Shall be one.

To tell the earth to shake
With marching feet

Of messengers of peace
Proclaim my law of love
To every nation
Every race.

And say
The old wrongs are over
The old ways are done
There shall be no more hate
And no more war
My people shall be one...

There shall be no more hate
And no more oppression
The old wrongs are done
My people shall be one.