Blessings For Christmas Day

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

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

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.