Friday, January 28, 2005

Theandria

The pain of Christmastide
God Confined
Echos forever in Bethlehem skies

Creation touches mystery,
God became Man
Hope of human history
In fragile baby's hand

Man who walks with footprints
God who bleeds and cries
Man who speaks as Carpenter
God who suffers -- dies

One God commands eternity
Was bound in time and space
Now God of cross and gravestone
Now God with human face

(I was issued a challenge to write a poem on the concept of the theandric union, the concept that Jesus was both very God and very Man. I hope you like it.)

2 comments:

John David Walt said...

This poem is like a snowy day with all the people you love inside.

Peter said...

Nice work. Would you allow St. Pat's the privilege of hearing this on the last day of Epiphany? (Feb 6).

It is a privilege to know an artist such as you.