Christmas Eve – Christmas Day 2016

Christmas Eve
BIRTH AND DISORDER
Lk 2:1-14, (15-20)
We anticipate
a birth, not the disorder
it accompanies.
 
In our relating
the further distant we are
the less its impact.
 
A birth narrative
of inn, angels and shepherds
bears deeper meaning.
 
But is much of that
meaning lost under swaddling
wrapped age upon age?
        Jeff Shrowder, 2016.
 
 
 
Christmas Day 1
UNWRAPPING 1
Lk 2:(1-7), 8-20
A baby is born:
family life upended,
a new pecking order.
 
A birth narrative
of inn, angels and shepherds
bears deeper meaning.

 
How then to unwrap
the deeper swaddled meaning
for hearers today?
        Jeff Shrowder, 2016.
 
 
 
Christmas Day 2
UNWRAPPING 2
(John 1:1-14)
The Word became flesh
and lived among us, one of us,
full of grace and truth.
 
How then to unwrap
the deeper swaddled meaning
for hearers today?

        Jeff Shrowder, 2016.
 
 
 
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