A Light in Darkness A Christmas Villanelle A light in darkness fights off the cold thrust into the world yet of its own making. The new life is fragile but the message is bold. A gentle king, as the prophets foretold, stirs in the straw and yawns in his waking. A light in darkness fights off the cold. A star from the East beckons prophecies old, the expanse between heaven and Earth is breaking. The new life is fragile but …
Tag: Poetry
The announcement, the call to her in the midst of sleep, is the very beginning of the story, the pinhole of opportunity, the invitation to grace the way opening to way. …
The journey begins, not at Nazareth as Joseph and Mary prepare for their trip to the City of David, but at a time much earlier. …
For I am covered in grace, not sin. Enveloped in hope, not in my past. Secure in that gaze. Wrapped in that holy. Held in that love. Sanctus. Sanctus. Sanctus. …
“The Church must be a poetic community,” theologian Walter Brueggemann once wrote, meaning — in my mind anyway — that if we are going to reach the people around us with the Gospel, we’re going to have to move beyond the standard rhetoric and capture their imaginations through our creativity, poetry, music, and art. …
The creative arts, at least for many of us who profess a Creator God, are acts of faith. When we dare to create, when we “step out the boat,” we move from safety and comfort into an area of uncertainty, for when we begin to create we don’t always know where we are going to end up. …
The peace of mind, soul and heart that we seek within ourselves takes its time and comes, not upon demand like so much else in our lives, but when we slowly and deliberately open ourselves to its possibility as a gift. …
It’s appropriate to gasp in exhileration when the world explodes in beauty before you. It’s right and just to fall on your knees and acknowledge that the Creator of everything likes to show off a little every night and paint the sky for our enjoyment. …
When you think about it, there’s no reason for all this beauty, really, other than to amaze us, to make us a little weak in the knees and a little more aware of God’s grandeur and majesty. …
We all need that time once in a while to unplug (physically and metaphorically) and recharge our spiritual batteries. I came back refreshed and quieted and filled with a peace and contentment that I know comes from God alone. …