Aspiration
Nearly unbelievable
Monumentally inconceivable
That something like Nativity
would happen
In a world, once set in motion
By our history quite broken
Ever tending toward destruction
in the end.
Yet the Force behind all things
From the gnat to Saturn’s rings
Was discerned to want a healing
to occur
Thus it was that from the first
From the best down to the worst
Baby Jesus, clothed and swaddled
God did send.
Expectation
We are waiting.
We are dying.
Here is hoping.
Here is sighing.
Here is light that overcomes.
Hope that quells the pain that numbs.
God has called us to prepare.
Wake thyself up – be aware!
Open eyes and hearts and minds,
Cast away the mask that blinds,
With the Baptist wash away
Sin that clings like Georgia clay
Seek the Lord within your calling
See the stars above are falling
To a place where sits a manger
Come and see – you are no stranger.
Incarnation
What would you do if an angel interrupted your best sleep?
What would you do if the message wasn’t one you’d want to keep?
Run away?
Hide your head?
Still your voice?
Stay in bed?
Come awake and take a breath?
Pray to God or hope for death?
Imagine that your life was hijacked
Far away from any norm
Every dream you had envisioned
Swallowed by Angelic storm.
Mary, Mary, meek and lowly.
Kept the vision. Kept the Holy.
Destination
Every journey is begun
with some sense of the
unknown.
Each encounter shapes the way
that it may go.
What we hope for is more light
To illuminate the night
To prevent our lives from tumbling,
Keep our weary feet from stumbling
Move us to a path where hope may ever flow
From life to life.
Grace to grace.
Joy to joy.
Face to face.
God incarnate – living Word.
It’s the best news that we’ve heard.
SLBowie 12/1/16
