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Dear Friends,

Are you as wrapped up in end-of-year professional busyness and Christmas busyness as I am? Poetry helps me slow down.

Join me in reading this Christmas poem, A Tale of Two Gardens, by Malcolm Guite.

A Tale Of Two Gardens

God gave us all a garden once
And walked with us at eve
That we might know him face to face
With no need to believe.

But we deni…