Christmas Invitation

Christmas by Invitation My dearest Emmanuel – God with us - Answering your Christmas celebration invitation Reserving stable Space Via this Prayer Watching with a child’s delight Your birth announcement rising up above the snow Of star dusted mountaintops As you hang your welcome wreath of fiery silver stars Upon Heaven’s door Like candles in eternity’s windows Guiding this poor pilgrim to your jubilee through bowed mountains - On a broad highway in a valley raised from exile - Bringing only a gift of simple love in tallow tapers Like a holly branch aflame not singed, No longer with the pacing heart of longing Across the exiled mystery In anxious steps of prophecy Warmed in the radiant light of comfort and peaceful mercy Then nurtured at the feasting table Of your sacred midnight silence Where forgiveness gifts each guest Through Heaven’s gracious door thrown open wide To fill our stockings with new confections Of praise and prayer, parables and psalms Humming to yourself in chimes Inside the living holy grail Of love’s perfection - Prince of Peace in ploughshares and in pruning hooks, Wonderful Everlasting, Counselor - Wreathing garlands of holy darkness Fed upon the nectar of your sweet spice in nascent joy My thanksgiving gushing in the dews of nativity For eyes that see, strong limbs that run, ears that hear And homeless hearts finding shelter - Wonder in twinkling tinsels of gratitude Awakened – rising up - in the first born cry of a baby boy And closing this RSVP in joy filled anticipation of riding On a wave of majestic magnetism of Christmas blessings Flowing in days to come When we climb your mountain in your great light. 11-28-20 Sponsor: Regina McIntosh Contest: Christmas Poetry