A weekly curated collection of essays, poetry, and reflections for your spiritual journey. From The Wisdom Years.
| A Blessing for Christmas Eve From Kate Bowler You are here. What a wonder. Robed in the everyday majesty of a newborn, so beautiful, so soft, so new. Perfect in the terrifying fragility that thrills every parent. (Watch his head! Look at those tiny fingernails.) God become human, blinking at strange, new surroundings. All wisdom and power poured into a smallness that knows hunger and gravity and unseeing urgency for your mother’s skin. And Mary, so newly parted from you, turns her thoughts to the impossible angelic visitation that promised you’d come. And she knew, somehow, staring at your eyelashes, that you were a great reversal here to put all things right. Blessed are we when our hearts warm with her. You’re here. And we are too, newly come to worship with kings and shepherds and barn animals and angels as you light up the world on this holiest, loveliest night. Find Kate Bowler at https://katebowler.com/ This blessing is from Kate Bowler’s forthcoming book, Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!, releasing January 23, 2024. |
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Beautiful. Merry Christmas.
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