Let the stable still astonish:
Straw-dirt floor,
Dusty flanks of donkeys, oxen;
Crumbling, crooked walls;
No bed to carry that pain,
And then, the child,
Rag-wrapped, laid to cry
In a trough.
Who would have chosen this?
Who would have said; "Yes,
Let the God of all the heavens
and earth
Be born here, in this place?"
Who but the same God
Who stands in the darker, fouler
rooms
of our hearts
and says,
"Yes,
let the God of Heaven and Earth
be born here....
in this place."
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Leslie Leyland Fields
~Patches of Godlight...Jan Karon
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Me thinks....a lot to ponder,
and wondering
at this kind of love.....Dee Dee
