I was so struck by this poem that Alison Morgan used in her sermon on "The Coming Kingdom" tonight.....it seems to encapsulate the incarnation as the life of Jesus rather than just the birth, and brings home the mystery that God revealed in Christ, how He would save the world through weakness and sacrifice.
The Wicked Fairy At The Manger
by
U.A. Fanthorpe
My gift for the child:
No wife, kids, home;
No money sense. Unemployable.
Friends, yes. But the wrong sort –
The workshy, women, wimps,
Petty infringers of the law, persons
With notifiable diseases,
Poll tax collectors, tarts;
The bottom rung.
His end?
I think we’ll make it
Public, prolonged, painful.
Right, said the baby. That was roughly
What we had in mind.
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