And is it true
Our
pretty Christmas story?
No
never true, for it is more than true
The
heart leaps at it.
It
is a doorway into joy that each of us can enter.
The
angels singing. Surely we hear that whisper when a baby's born.
The
ox and ass bowing their heads.
It's
right, for every child knows that in some ways,
The
beasts see more than we do.
Then
come the curious, shepherds and wise men,
The
peasants and the sages both knowing
That
something very new is here.
And
last those two who haunted the doorways of the synagogues.
Anna
and Simeon
Suddenly
their doubt has ended
It's
come what they'd been waiting for.
And
was it like the pictures in our minds
An
English landscape, snow, Mary a pure bred Anglo Saxon,
The
baby blue eyed?
No
it was not. But that's no matter.
No matter how we see it, it can be our way
to
see that God is in this fearful world and cares for it.
For
this is more than truth. It is a doorway into joy.
This
Christmas let us go through the doorway.
Nick Mellersh 2016
Today (Sunday Jan 31) is Candlemass the last act in the nativity story. When two strange prophets Simeon and Anna tell Mary that her son is something very amazing. Heaven knows what Mary thought. Weren't the angels enough without having two eccentric old pensioners disrupt the Christening? Anyway here's a holy poem to mark the end of this Christmas. I hope it makes you think.
The work on the ebooks continues and we are making good progress on Illustrated Fluteplaying as an ebook.
As ever there is a new set of drawings on the sister blog currently showing "A nude a week", well almost every week anyway. See http://ipadpainting-jeanie.blogspot.co.uk/
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