{"id":1637,"date":"2015-12-25T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-dawn-of-the-tiny-king\/"},"modified":"2015-12-25T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T10:00:06","slug":"the-dawn-of-the-tiny-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-dawn-of-the-tiny-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn of the Tiny King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Il Fratello<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>What should I do with all this Christmas news<br \/>\n<\/span><span>that dawns like fire-light on ice<br \/>\n<\/span><span>that makes a change and says to change&#8211;<br \/>\n<\/span><span>will I allow the pitiful child, born in a cattle pen<br \/>\n<\/span><span>to steal upon the near-hardened strings of my callous heart?<br \/>\n<\/span><span>let my eyes see what I at first don\u2019t see<br \/>\n<\/span><span>strain my deafened ears to listen once again<br \/>\n<\/span><span>for small tender, deep down things?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>or casually sleep the night, assuming it to be<br \/>\n<span>like any other night. and say upon accounting<br \/>\n<\/span><span>I never saw or heard or knew he came?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>low, low, low, low down things<br \/>\n<span>manure and straw, dirt floor and the cold draft<br \/>\n<\/span><span>of winter ice-wind through barn boards<br \/>\n<\/span><span>who will keep warm the infant savior of the world?<br \/>\n<\/span><span>I even I, who most needs saving, can give my cloak<br \/>\n<\/span><span>stand watch outside the door,<br \/>\n<\/span><span>lean against the drafty wall and block the cold<br \/>\n<\/span><span>get mary water, run for joseph\u2019s gentle requests<\/span><\/p>\n<p>in the balance of the night I will choose<br \/>\n<span>to scoff or to love<br \/>\n<\/span><span>to turn away or to help<br \/>\n<\/span><span>to pass by or to stop<br \/>\n<\/span><span>and let my heart be struck-smitten-cracked<br \/>\n<\/span><span>open by the incarnation of Love<\/span><\/p>\n<p>what wild song the angels sing<br \/>\n<span>dancing on the breezes of the midnight star-sky<br \/>\n<\/span><span>that calls to us a sweeter sound like<br \/>\n<\/span><span>love-struck joy, like earth heaving<br \/>\n<\/span><span>mountain ache of now rightly-set things.<br \/>\n<\/span><span>They sing salvation come to us in darkest hour<br \/>\n<\/span><span>a tiny King, his dawn is fire-light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MotherChild-e1450966824167.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5625826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MotherChild-e1450966824167-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mother&amp;Child\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/a7FUAavKjXE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Il Fratello What should I do with all this Christmas news that dawns like fire-light on ice that makes a change and says to change&#8211; 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