Shaver Christmas Letter 1978

"There is a legend on the street that, on
Christmas Day, Skid Road is dead sober.
Have we a sign here that a
Saviour has come?

The Climax of a SEASON -

In which tenderness,
reunion and recollection
are both warm and painful
and are inseparably mixed with
hype, shove, extravagance,
temporary generosity and make-believe

- is a Day on which all illusions fail
to work and we are left with the real world.
What if it is the real world God loves and
that is why He sent His Son?
No wonder that first Christmas Gift was
called unspeakable!
My He be yours!"