We end the year with an old favorite. You can see the audio-visual meditation, here. (Scroll down beneath the archived Advent calendars.) Make sure you have your sound on.
Candlemas
By Denise Levertov
With certitude,
Simeon opened
ancient arms
to infant light.
Decades
before the cross, the tomb
and the new life,
he knew
new life.
What depth
of faith he drew on,
turning illumined
towards deep night.