I’ve been quiet inside. Trying to
dwell on Immanuel, God with us, this Christmas.
Quieting the voices of sorrow and guilt, hushing the
chaos and clamor down to hear that ever present
Whispering sound of
Immanuel, God with us.
Faltering and failing as I’m grasping onto a yearning
to see God as a little baby resting among the hay filled space in the blue of the morning.
Immanuel, God with us.
My daughter sits on my knee,
holds my face with her hands and looks directly at me.
“I see christmas in your eyes,” she says surely.
I pause all the trying going on in my mind.
Stopping, looking to see what she has seemed to easily find.
And in that small moment of time,
I realize it isn’t my eyes where she sees it shine.
My glasses reflect the twinkling image of the lit up tree
before us and in that shadow of what is true, she sees the Christmas lights on me.
Everything seems to stall to still and the hum of life
fades down a bit. And I see the God fully there in my strife.
Immanuel, God with us.
I see in the shadowing now of what is true and right.
That he shines back to fill our face with what is only His hopeful light.
Immanuel, God with us.
Never again alone. No longer found without hope.
Immanuel, God with us.
No more separated, no longer orphaned. No longer begging
into this world for our worthiness.
The present of God's presence given to us.
And as we turn to him in our joys, pain, sorrows, and fight
He reflects back his beautiful glowing, gentle light.
I see Christmas in your eyes.
Immanuel, God with us.