A Christmas Prayer

Baby-small

vulnerable
risk-taking God,
re-enter our hearts
as we ponder your coming amongst us.

Holy and beautiful

radiant God,
shine in our dark
as we think of your birth in the stable.

Peaceful and merciful

all-loving God,
pour your compassion out through us.

Let us love like you,

live like you ,
bear your Good News to our world.

Let Emmanuel

live on through us.

Baby-small

vulnerable
risk-taking God,

re-enter our hearts

as we ponder your coming amongst us.

Amen

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Spirit of the Incarnation

Spirit of the Incarnation

Holy birther

of possibility

rushing wind

dancing flame
seed
within the womb

gentle whisperer

promise nurturer
midwife
of change

in this flawed

and wounded temple
of my being

be the energy of God

within

dismantle
my resistance
to your flow,
break through
with power and wisdom,
and shine
gloriously shine

Spirit of the Incarnation

be fully enfleshed
in this place
this time
 
in me
.

A Whisper in the Night

He came

out of nowhere,
like a whisper in the night,
delivered the message,
the truly astounding message,
and then
like a half forgotten dream in the morning
he was gone
as if he'd never been,
leaving me wondering
pondering
wrestling with questions unanswerable,
knowing that everything
every single thing
had just
changed.

I had said my yes

and now
there was no turning back.

I rested my hand

on my belly
and pondered
the mystery of it all.

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