Look to the stars and consider Christ…
Here is a poem that my wife wrote for the Nativity that I am just sharing now, it is relevant even now; Christ is with us!
In the winter of humanity
When man was in his darkest hour and our own pride had failed us
You came.
A tiny radiant star in the arms of your mother
with glory shooting out into the darkness
Whose beams shone forth and pierced the rotted hollows of despair
A glimmer of what was to come
wrapped in the body of a sleeping babe
With blue veins and ivory nails
And eyes that reflected the awesome mysteries of Heaven ….sparkling like two fresh stars
There, in the solemn veil of the midnight hour, our great redemption came
Into the care of the meek and dutiful
whose faith revived our fallen joy
and set the clock against the bonds of death
So that all the world heaved a hopeful sigh
And made the mightiest of kings give pause and follow
To see that glorious salvation shining outward on the earth
Like shimmering slivers of starlight
That settled bright upon the faces of the lost.
[written by Kara Vollman, 2008]
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For those interested, here’s a link to a recently posted article by Metropolitan Jonah Paffhausen titled, “Creativity and Tradition”: http://www.oca.org/jonah-2009-0202.html
(my lack of savvy prohibits me from posting an active link)
