THE DREAM
“…an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.” Matthew 1:20 Amiably conversant with virtue and evil,
The righteousness of Joseph and wickedness
Of Herod, I’m ever and always a stranger to grace.
I need this annual angel visitation /–sudden dive by dream to reality–
To know the virgin conceives and God is with us.
The dream powers its way through winter weather
and gives me vision to see the Jesus gift.
Light from the dream lasts a year.
Impervious to equinox and solstice
it makes twelve months
Of daylight by which I see the creche
where my Redeemer lives.
Archetypes of praise take shape/Deep in my spirit. As autumn wanes I count
The days ’til I will have the dream again. From The Contemplative Pastor by Eugene Peterson, Word
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