While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.
—Luke 2.6
Stressed, unwelcomed,
you have borne your joy, carried it to full term.
In harsh places
you have shielded the wonder within.
In the deep night of the world’s abandonment
you have delivered your love,
that is our own deliverance.
Now caked with the stable’s sour crud
and birth’s sweet crud,
you rest.
Life has evoked life in you.
You have brought forth love,
yours and ours.
Rest in this.
There will be much to do,
the child will soon be hungry.
There will be shepherds.
There will be fleeing.
But now, in this peace,
rest.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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