MARSHVILLE
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

As we start the New Year

January 5th, 2012

Our District Superintendent Amy Coles included this in her Christmas greeting. It is one of my favorite poems.  Hope you enjoy it. And may this be our prayer as we begin the new year . . . .

“WHEN the song of the angels is stilled,

WHEN the star in the sky is gone,

WHEN the kings and princes are home,

WHEN the shepherds are back with their flock,

the work of Christmas begins:

TO FIND the lost

TO HEAL the broken

TO FEED the hungry

TO RELEASE the prisoner

TO REBUILD the nations

TO BRING PEACE among brothers and sisters

TO MAKE MUSIC in the heart.”

Howard Thurman

Marshville United Methodist Church © 2009, by Chet Helms.