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Tag Archives: Christmas
Scheduled Attempts at Delight
In December, the people turn their attentionto joy.We don’t do it well, of course:the baubles are tacky, the sales crowded,we line up in a fifty-minute queueto see exactly what we already knew was going to happen,happen just as we knew … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged advent, Christmas, happiness, joy, Seasonal Affective Disorder
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“It’s for the children isn’t it – Christmas”
So it has been said to me, over the course of my winters,by several older men, with sad eyes, kind manners, and, often, livesrough around the edges. And they’re right.Better than right: they live their creed,there when the lights need … Continue reading
Hallelujah
Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation,sing all the residents on all floors of the accountancy firm,sing junkies, sing outcasts, sing church choirs who can’t carry a tune,sing lovers of misery and hopeless pedants of time. Sing for the holy … Continue reading
the miracle
Though notby any stretchor leapa “by the book”OrthodoxChristian(if anything,a “beside the book”semi-literaryheathen),on their two main pointsofChristmasincarnationaltheology,I am basically in completefundamentalagreement. The firstis that the miraclehas alreadyhappened. I mean,on Marsthey’re lookingintentlyat rocks.Rocks!Nothingwrongwith rocks.But here on earth,well –need I go on. And … Continue reading
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Tagged advent, Christianity, Christmas, Jesus, Mars Rover, miracles, NASA, theology
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Bethlehem and Matamoros
Bethlehem’s only one city, you know.The other day in Matamoros,a Mom, originally from Guatamela,gave birth on the banks of the river.This really happened, you can read about it.Asylum seekers lay her down in the Rio Grande mud,and whispered soothing words … Continue reading
Santa update
Here’s the good news: Santa is not feeling under the weather.Really, there’s not much weather to be under. The Arctic Circleis strangely warm, today, the air lingers around like a shiftless,antiseptic winter doldrum in Florida. Santa, who reads the news,is … Continue reading
Before the Angels Appeared
That dayLike all daysThere was the sound of the creek in the lower corner of the field,The tempo of the hooves, growing fasterWith the slope of the hill,The susurrus of wool and flesh,Accompanied by the chirp of the sunbird,And the … Continue reading
Bethlehem
Actually, there is a starover your housetonight. Several. Some of themare 10 billion years old. (One was born todaybut it was on the other end of town,behind the Genza galaxy,and is just hanging quietly with its parent cloud,awaiting instruction.) There … Continue reading
Wenceslas Parker Looked Out
Wenceslas Parker looked out,At Half-time of the Spurs game,Wet and rainy all about,Wind speed nearly hurr’cane.Parker thanked his lucky stars,Twas’ Boxing day in Leicester,Work was closed, but not the bars,Doctor Who and Grantchester. When a poor man did alight,From the … Continue reading
Your Monday Blessing: Third Sheep from the Left
The third sheep from the left is the holy child. You can see her, in the frame of her mother’s camera, at the heart of the heavens and the earth. In her, the earliest secrets of love are revealed. Before … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Christmas, nativity, poetry
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