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Christmas Music
The very first Christian music I ever bought was Amy Grant's. After nearly 20 years (has it really been that long?), she recently released a Christmas album. I have not listened to that one yet, and I heard that a major retailer decided not to carry her album because...
Wise Men and Journeys
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3 When...
Christmas Eve (by Christina Rossetti)
God makes a promise in Genesis after Adam and Eve sin: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. ~ Genesis 3:15 The promise spoken...
Mary’s Song and Descent (poems by Luci Shaw)
Mary's Song Blue homespun and the bend of my breast keep warm this small hot naked star fallen to my arms. (Rest … you who have had so far to come.) Now nearness satisfies the body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies whose vigor hurled a universe. He sleeps whose eyelids...
Breath (Poem by Luci Shaw)
Breath When, in the cavern darkness, Jesus opened his small, bleating mouth (even before his eyes widened to the supple world his lungs had sighed into being), did he intuit how hungrily the lungs gasp? Did he begin, then, to love the way air sighs as it brushes in...
A Poem by Luci Shaw
“…for who can endure the day of his coming?” ~ Malachi 3:2 When an angel snapped the old thin threads of speech with an untimely birth announcement, slit the seemly cloth of an even more blessed event with shears of miracle, invaded the privacy...
Poetry by Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L'Engle is probably best known for her book A Wrinkle in Time (which remained one of my favorite books growing up), but did you know she wrote sequels to A Wrinkle in Time, and she also wrote poetry, nonfiction, and several volumes of memoirs, totaling over...
Made Flesh (poem by Luci Shaw)
I came across a few poems from Luci Shaw and Madeleine L'Engle recently, and will be posting a poem each day this week leading up to Christmas from one of them. Below is one I particularly enjoyed. I tried searching for some artwork, but I could not find something...
Snow-flakes (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Snow-flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends...
“Listen. Are you breathing…” (quotes by Mary Oliver)
Below are some inspiring and beautiful quotes by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Mary Oliver. *********************************************************************** “Listen. Are you breathing and calling it a life?” "Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the...
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