Be Thou Calm

Something to think and pray about this week:

Psychiatrists say they are at their busiest in the weeks coming up to Christmas. The feast stirs up anxieties linked to memories of childhood, and relationships within the family. It pushes us to difficult decisions about sending invitations or cards or gifts. No wonder people talk about "getting over Christmas". But our real friends do not judge us by those decisions. They like us to be calm and contented in ourselves, with a clean emotional palate so that we can enter into and taste other people's joys.