For the 9th card in the Tim Fix Scholarship Fund Series I chose to illustrate it around a reading from Fra Giovani. The message in its words are so beautiful I am including it in its entirety below:

I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not;
but there is much that, while I cannot give, you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take Heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
Take Peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it yet, within our reach,
is joy. Take Joy.

And so, at this Christmas time, I greet you with the prayer that for you,
now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

-Fra Giovanni
A.D. 1513