christmas poem
some days this love i hold close
feels like one i barely know
but then you come in all over again
take my breath away
like you did the shepherd’s on that glorious day
our Savior came to be the way
for light to shine through even in the messiest place
swaddling clothes held the lamb
who’d one day be slain
but first he had to live
and breathe
and be
human, just like you and me
sinless & embodying love perfectly
a reality no human could ever even dream
on a dark day, grace came
came and swept me off my feet in the best way
now i won’t ever be the same
you leave me weak in my feet
because of how your grace came and met me
i feel it in my tears
i see it in my friend’s face
i breathe it in with every waking day
i imagine that little baby’s cry
and mary holding the one
who holds the world together
in her arms, love coddled
joseph’s eyes met his sons
who’d one day be the son, God would give for all
born only to meet death at the young age of thirty three
little did they know
death could resurrect after being hung on a tree
it all started with a promise
and that promise became peace
the kind of peace
that’d first have to break
into a million pieces
in order for me to be free
what kind of crazy love is this?
a baby in a stable
who cradles me in His arms
when i feel lonely and sick
who holds me when i feel far from a radical love like this
on a dark day, grace came
these tears i cry won’t ever be the same
they hold great weight
because i know the God who comes in the unexpected place
meets me when i least expect it
and shows me His resurrection
greatness that starts small
yet always prevails over the darkest squall
Jesus wasn’t coming in weak
he was coming to wage war
“a decisive strike of heaven,” my pastor called it
and now i get to experience heaven strike my mind with each passing day
as i ponder and read of his wonderful, marvelous grace
his decision remains:
light’s greatest collision
continues to break the evil that takes
heaven and earth strain
swaddling clothes wrapped the very One who’d save
just as He was covered
so, now he covers me
on a dark day, grace came
the world received her king
i’m utterly, deeply, & irrevocably swept off my feet
now my life will never be the same
because on a dark day, grace came to rescue me from all my chains