Thoughts on the Way Home

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Baby Jesus Isn't Safe

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Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,
To men He was a stranger,
The safety of the world was lying there,
And the world's danger.

-- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, "The Stable"


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