Nothing is impossible for God,a Poetic Reflection on Christmas by Jenny Dawkins

Heaven springs a leak over ordinary earth.

It starts over Nazareth
a droplet of light holds its breath
and falls into an ordinary home.
At a young woman’s Yes,
a secret starburst.

Shadows, shaken, take one step back.

Passers-by miss the glow
But in her belly
the promise has taken hold.

She grows luminous in this pregnancy
Though some days she wishes otherwise
the iridescence in her is irrepressible.
When she sings the town hears sunrise.

Nine months later,
Another angel drops liquidly onto a hillside.

The very grass becomes golden.
Shepherds cheeks redden
in the face of this midnight dawn.

An announcement defies the dark:
Come and meet Light.
Come and see Hope.
Come and know Love.
You need not be afraid.

And suddenly, heaven gushes
light and song and joy
over this ordinary earth.

It is unstoppable.

Shepherds run and splash
through puddles
shouting, “Come and See!”

Though the world is dark
a new day has been born,
and what was once, will become forever.
and what was glimpsed
will one day be seen in full.

Every ordinary place
alive with this bright reality.
every hillside drenched in glory.

For with God, nothing will be impossible.

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Jenny Dawkins (Revd).
 Vicar of Christ Church, Gipsy Hill, London.
Poem reproduced by permission.
for more from Jenny see her Instagram page ~ gipsyhilljen.

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