Twas the weeks before Christmas and all through my mind

Was the love of Jesus

And how could we all be so blind? Blind to the ways of the world

And in what we really hold true

Blind to all the superficiality

What is real, and what will always stay new. Things of the world, whatever they are

Stay good for a moment

But not forever by far. Why can’t we realize there’s only today,

Today to tell our loved ones

We feel this way. To tell them we love them

And what really runs deep,

To never let them go

Like the Lord with His sheep. If I close my eyes today

It’s gone in a blink

Like these things that once were new

And like you never would think. So look in the mirror

Because it will be just a blip,

And open your eyes again

And you won’t be so hip. Tomorrow will come

And your outside will change

But thank God for your inside

Because that you can rearrange.

Melissa Quinlan Finnigan

Warwick