All this magic is worked within
the earthy Mary, where the Child
is filled with grace and born with marvelous
capacity, alive and kicking, growing,
laughing, breathing, speaking, waxing wise.
the earthy Mary, where the Child
is filled with grace and born with marvelous
capacity, alive and kicking, growing,
laughing, breathing, speaking, waxing wise.
Knitting the eternal into dust,
Mary makes a life that can outlast a lifetime –
mortal, with tired eyes and weary feet,
and immortal, shining, sustaining
even a body broken.
Mary makes a life that can outlast a lifetime –
mortal, with tired eyes and weary feet,
and immortal, shining, sustaining
even a body broken.
The earth, too, within her deep storehouse,
mothers strength to grow beyond winter,
ponders possibility and providence,
contemplates fruitfulness,
Mary-ing another springtime for this world.
mothers strength to grow beyond winter,
ponders possibility and providence,
contemplates fruitfulness,
Mary-ing another springtime for this world.
In gathering shadows December cloaks
the cold ground with everlasting light.
We wander among miracles as
the hopes and fears of all the years are met in us.
And it is Christmas, once again.
the cold ground with everlasting light.
We wander among miracles as
the hopes and fears of all the years are met in us.
And it is Christmas, once again.
-from December Light by Nancy Rockwell
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