By Bob Marley
I took this photo of a Christmas ornament in the snow about eleven months ago. It is the same outside now so...
May you find the beauty in whatever Christmas weather you are experiencing.
May you have the option, if you are snowed under, of coming in from the cold.
May all the homeless people everywhere, especially where Christmases or innkeepers' hearts are cold or afraid, find doors that will open to them.
May those Trinbagonians inside of Trinbago who feel like outsiders in their own skins or homes or neighbourhoods or country and those Trinbagonians abroad who want to return home, all find a way to come in from whatever coldness they are experiencing.
Until then, you are not alone. As Bob Marley says, "Well, the biggest, biggest man you ever, ever did see was ah, was ah once a baby." Bob Marley might not have been thinking about the Son of Man, but tonight I am thinking about the baby Jesus and the doors that were shut to Him, about His birth outside in the open manger and His words later, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." -- Matthew 8:20 New American Standard Bible (1995)
Until you find, or return to, the place that you can call your home, may you feel at home in the places where you find yourselves, knowing that we all are in one way or another, nomads...we are all trying to come in from the cold.
We awake, we laugh, we return!
This is what I am thinking about this Christmas and Bob Marley's "Coming In From The Cold" says it best for me. Christmas blessings to all.
COMING IN FROM THE COLD
By Bob Marley
In this life, in this life, in this life,
In this, oh sweet life:
We're [coming in from the cold]
We're coming in [coming in], coming in [coming in],
Coming in [coming in], coming in [coming in],
Coming in from the cold.
It's you, it's you, it's you I'm talking to
Well, you [it's you], you [it's you], you I'm talking to now.
Why do you look so sad and forsaken?
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open?
Would you let the system make you kill your brotherman?
No, no, no, no, no, no! No, Dread, no!
Would you make the system make you kill your brotherman?
[No, Dread, no!]
Would you make the system get on top your head again?
[No, Dread, no!]
Well, the biggest man you ever did see was, was just a baby.
In this life [in this life, in this life],
In this [in this life, oh sweet life]
Coming in from the cold
We're coming in [coming in], coming in [coming in],
coming in [coming in], ooh! [coming in]
Coming in from the cold!
It's life [it's life], it's life [it's life], it's life [it's life]
It's, wah, well, coming in from the cold!
We're coming in [coming in], coming in (coming in]
ooh [coming in], hey! [coming in],
Coming in from the cold!
It's you, you, you I'm talking
Well, yes, you, [it's you]
Ow! You, I'm talking to now.
Girl, why do you look so look so, look so sad, look so sad and forsaken?
Don't you know, When one door is closed, when one door is closed,
many more is open?
Well, would you let the system get on top your head again?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Dread, no!
Would you let the system make you kill your brotherman?
No, Dread, no!
Well, would you make the system get on top your head again?
[No, Dread, no!] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Well, the biggest, biggest man you ever, ever did see
was ah, was ah once a baby.
In this life, in this life, in this life,
In this, oh, sweet life,
We're [coming in from the cold] from the cold!
We're coming in [coming in], coming in [coming in],
coming in [coming in], wo-o! Yea-ea-eah!
Coming in from the cold
We're coming in, coming in, coming in, coming in!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea-ea-ea-eah!
[Coming in from the cold]
Coming in [coming in], coming in [coming in]
[coming in] (coming in]
[coming in] from the - from the cold...
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N.B. The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.
Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.
Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare
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