This poem was written by Bob Webb out here at KIVU. This is the final reflection of our KIVU Advent Devotions. Have a blessed Christmas!
BORN... of a woman, a virgin torn
…blessed comfort for those who mourn
…bold to fulfill all that was sworn
…a he-child, a free child, a lion unshorn
…a seed, a root, of salvation, a horn
…a boy, a man on whose shoulders the government is worn
…acquainted with grief but fount of joy, peaceful healer but object of scorn
…a light, a love rejected, beaten, emptied and crowned with thorns
…in blood he arrived in Bethlehem, in blood he died, he defied lies well-worn
…his last, hurting breath a prayer; and by it lifted the lovelorn, gifted the stillborn
…finishing the mystery of forgiveness, beginning the mystery of the twiceborn
…and so He forever makes new each morn
…and so we endeavor to let His Spirit adorn...
our hearts this day, re-born.
Lord, may we not only visit the story of Christmas once in a while, but carry the story
with us so that Your birth, Your story, may transform our understanding and our
undertakings in our every days between the Decembers of our lives. Thanks be to You.
Amen.
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