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A Stairway to Christmas

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A Stairway to Christmas

Daniel
Dec 20, 2021
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A Stairway to Christmas

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πŸŽ„ Darkest night, O Holy night
When his glory took flight.

✨ What was it like when He descended?
Heaven and earth were upended.

πŸŽ„ Let me imagine his descent.
Impart mercy, for heresy is not my intent.

✨ Imagination God has granted.
That we may draw with truth enchanted.

πŸŽ„ Not with hard lines of law.
Rather, beauty, unity, the good, and awe.

✨ For how are we, material and broken,
To understand mysteries unspoken?

πŸŽ„ Before His descent into our earthly ways,
He existed in Heaven as the Ancient of Days.

✨ Can you imagine how it would start?
How the Ancient of Days and his glory part?

πŸŽ„ The stars, they align,
Forming a stairway divine.

✨ To earth these stairs like water flow
And with each step His glories go.

πŸŽ„ Fast and swift his majesty set aside.
But let our mind do its work where time does not abide.

✨ Let us imagine what each step imparts.
As the Ancient of days, his home he departs.

πŸŽ„ The first step brings bone and marrow,
And with them comes future sorrow.

✨ The second brings nerves and pain,
And with them comes future disdain.

πŸŽ„ The third brings blood and life,
And with them comes future strife.

✨ The fourth brings a heart and mind,
And with them comes a future bind.

πŸŽ„ The fifth brings nose, mouth, eyes, and ears.
And with them comes future tears.

✨ The sixth brings hands and feet and head to adorn
And with them comes future nails and crown of thorn.

πŸŽ„ The final brings a child born today,
And with it brings a manger filled with hay.

✨ The incarnation is now complete
The Ancient of Days is now asleep.

πŸŽ„ No nails, nor cross, nor crown has start.
No beatings, nor piercings, nor God torn apart.

✨ It is a holy night and the stars are shining.
As the Word made flesh is peacefully abiding.

πŸŽ„ The divine became flesh,
But his natures were not enmeshed.

✨ He had begun the journey; man shall be saved;
Man, wretched, wicked, and heart so depraved.

πŸŽ„ How did Christ set aside his glory?
Maybe this is part of the story?

✨ Alas it is not for us to know.
But this provides our imagination room to grow.

πŸŽ„ The impassible God became passible man;
How we wish to know, but no one can.

✨ On that night, that silent night
Our savior came down a holy flight.

πŸŽ„ As our King lay in Mary’s arms.
Let us thank him for his future harms.

✨ Knowing that he calls all who follow,
To be more than bodies dark and hollow.

πŸŽ„ We too have crosses to bear,
self to deny and sorrows to care.

✨ But praise be to God for descending his throne
And on that silent night making his love known.

Keep Thinking.

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