Renewing faith with evidence empirical. <br />Yes, we need fresh testimony lyrical, <br />Changing hearts that else would change to stone, <br />Healing those who, hearing, would atone, <br />Grace comes unexpectedly <br />In barns on bitter nights, <br />Ultimately ordinary <br />Lest we claim our rights. <br />May you find this Christmas inner peace <br />Equal to the patient love you give, <br />Releasing all the pain you can release, <br />Renewing all the grace with which you live. <br />Yet if God did descend one frosty night, <br />Child emergent from a mortal womb, <br />How can we comprehend so strange a sight, <br />Reason still incumbent in the room?<br /><br />Mary Wismer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/child-emergent/
