Well, I feel like we have successfully refocused and in an effort to do just that I pulled out a book of poetry that was once my Mimi's. Mimi was an incredibly spiritual woman who as James Dillet Freeman wrote, "had the heart of a poet." When she passed away my junior year in college we found and opened her worn Bible. In it were notes written all over the pages giving us even more insight into her thoughts, her heart, her SPIRIT. I can only hope my Bible looks like that one day. No, Mimi didn't believe Christianity was all about memorizing and quoting scripture....it was an experience...a journey that filled her heart with joy. Her favorite christian poet was the man mentioned above, James Dillet Freeman. I have one of the many books she had collected by him and in it is this poem.
CHRISTMAS TRUTH
What tale is lovelier or stranger
Than that of God's birth in a manger!
Had I on that first Christmas Eve
Been sent to find Him, I believe
I would have sought in the temple or
Gone knocking at the palace door;
To think to look in a stable yard
To find my God would have been hard.
But if God may be found in a stable stall,
I may not be too mean or small
To give Him birth. I may in me
Discover a divinity.
To find God in the least of things-
This is the hope that Christmas brings.
Christ from His manger cries to the lowly
The truth that every man is holy.
So Merry Christmas to all of my family, friends and anyone else who may read this. There is Divinity in each one of you and my prayer is that you will see it and feel it too.
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