Stop

Stop

By: Mary Westberg

Nov 30, 2011

Crowded stores , last minute shopping

Things to make and go and do

Shipping, decorating, wrapping

Baking cookies , just a few.

People say to stop and smell

The roses when they are in bloom

Yet forget to stop and smell the

Pine tree in their living room.

We get  wrapped up in the noise

Of Jingle bells and Santa’s call

We forget to listen to the

One who’s birth began it all.

Take a minute, take an hour

Close your eyes and breathe it in.

Feel the stillness of the season

Let the peacefulness begin.