Ian Oliver, the pastor for the University Church at Yale has written a marvelous poem called “A Christmas Prayer.” For the whole poem, see here. A part of it reads:
If God can lie down in a cattle-trough,
is any object safe from transformation?
If peasant girls can be mothers to God,
Is any life safe from the invasion of the eternal?
If all this could happen, O God,
What places of darkness on our earth
are pregnant with light waiting to be born this night?
Susan Stabile quotes the same excerpt at Creo en Dios. Her brief reflection is worth reading.
Yeah Right.
I'm here right now in the miracle of Yosemite, where among 3000 faces not a single face of a Black or Mexican Amerikan can be found.
We have a long way to go; White boys talking about their glorious life and the beauty of their White Country Clubs--parks, forests and public universities--subsidized by, but off bounds to our minority citizens, won't cut it for me.
I think Christmas means burning down all those forest, parks and universities reserved for the members of the US SS.
Posted by: Jimbino | 12/26/2011 at 05:32 PM