Blue Truck, Red State: Christmas Eve 2023

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Christmas Eve 2023

It's a cold, wet, dreary day in Texas, but M.P. and I are snug and warm in our little bungalow, grateful for all the quiet blessings we have been given. We send our best wishes for Christmas cheer and warmth to all our truckbuddies, along with a prayer for peace on earth, goodwill to men.

My truckbuddy Frank's niece, Andrea De Francesco, has recorded this gorgeous performance of "O Holy Night" that blew me away. I think you'll like it.

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Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu