A 'Good King Wenceslas' Walk-in-the-Woods

Sunday January 26, 2025

A rather ‘Good King Wenceslas’ 

trudge this morning. 

 

A bit of ‘bitter weather’ for sure, 

being winter in Canada. 

Not ‘on The Feast of Stephen’, but the feast of St Paula Romana , 

according to my book of saints, 

(January 26, 347-404).

The snow, ‘deep and crisp and even’, 

and a good six or eight inches of it in the woods. 

And we were, in a sense, ‘gathering winter fuel’, 

as we scouted out a number of standing dead elms, 

and pocketed some birchbark. 

And we certainly walked ‘where the snow lay dinted’ 

as we followed the four-wheeler tracks from a few days ago.

And, 

we did ‘find blessing‘...

Sunday morning Angel Tree.