i wish

this christmas,
i wish
for regret to turn to acceptance,
for pain to turn to healing,
for need to turn to abundance,
for tears to turn to laughter,
for weariness to turn to rest,
for void to turn to fulfillment,
for heartache to turn to ecstasy,
for forgetting to turn to remembering,
for offended to turn to forgiveness,
for doubt to turn to belief,
for loneliness to turn to friendship,
for pride to turn to humility,
for weakness to turn to strength,
for dryness to turn to quenched,
for questions to turn to answers,
for dreams to turn to reality,
for barren to turn to fruitful,
for uncertainty to turn to confidence,
for mistakes to turn to lessons,
for despair to turn to hope,
for disappointment to turn to surprise,
for sickness to turn to well,
for disbelief to turn to faith,
for exhaustion to turn to endurance,
for fear to turn to courage,
for cold to turn to warmth,
for skepticism to turn to trust,
for disrespect to turn to honor,
for directionless to turn to vision,
for tempestuous to turn to calm,
for noise to turn to quiet,
for impatience to turn to patience,
for shame to turn to unashamed,
and
for sorrow to turn to joy...

...in my life,
in yours,
and in the lives of everyone i know
and even those i don't know.

merry christmas.