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"The Nativity"
1898-1963. This is the year we celebrate the centenary of Lewis' birth - and here's a poem about the birth of Jesus. THE NATIVITY Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow) I see a glory in the stable grow Which, with the ox's dullness might at length Give me an ox's strength. Among the asses (stubborn I as they) I see my Saviour where I looked for hay; So may my beastlike folly learn at least The patience of a beast. Among the sheep (I like a sheep have strayed) I watch the manger where my Lord is laid; Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence Some woolly innocence. - C. S. Lewis, from POEMS, edited by Walter Hooper, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 [I pray that your Christmas celebration will be both wonderful and full of wonder; that it will be a real holiday and also a very special holy day. "Let every heart prepare him room."] God rest you merry! Chip Stam Pastor of Worship and Music Chapel Hill Bible Church Chapel Hill, North Carolina |