Merry Christmas

Quietly,
humbly,
into poverty and need,
sin and greed,

The Holy One
entered
time,
in flesh and bone,
becoming one
with humankind.

Amid the
sounds--
beasts stirring,
Virgin laboring,
stillness of the
small, heedless,
sleeping town--

A Child draws breath,

And Creator joins
with creation:

Behold!
The Almighty
is doing a
new thing!

The Ancient of Days
slumbers,
swaddled,
in the trough.


Copyright [Psalmist], 2008