'But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman..' (Galatians 4:4)
The conception and birth of Jesus constitute the arrival of the time, the bursting into history of its key moment.
CS Lewis makes the same point in his poem, The Turn of The Tide
He pictures a 'deathly stillness' spreading from Bethlehem to Jerusalem to 'the islands and the North', to Rome, to Carthage and the Nile. He imagines the earth sending out a signal to the rest of the cosmos, 'Great Galactic lords' wondering and whispering whether this was the end of their story and their glory. He captures the moment at which the tide was neither going in nor going out, the moment of stillness before momentous change. And then suddenly the tide begins to rush in again, life returns and pulsates into space. The constellations are shaken, the spheres give out their music once more, but this time new and different. Heaven dances, and 'A shiver of re-birth and deliverance on the Earth went gliding. 'Leprechauns dance, the Pheonix rises- astronomy and mytholodolgy, science and science fiction are oriented towards 'the cry of the One new born'. It is his way of saying that here, in this event, something decisive has happened to the constitution of the cosmos. This is the hiatus of hitory and the turning-point of time.
He has become one of us....
A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A shiny star lights up way up high
All across the land dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born
A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds have changed whisperin the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn
This comes to pass when a child is born
The conception and birth of Jesus constitute the arrival of the time, the bursting into history of its key moment.
CS Lewis makes the same point in his poem, The Turn of The Tide
He pictures a 'deathly stillness' spreading from Bethlehem to Jerusalem to 'the islands and the North', to Rome, to Carthage and the Nile. He imagines the earth sending out a signal to the rest of the cosmos, 'Great Galactic lords' wondering and whispering whether this was the end of their story and their glory. He captures the moment at which the tide was neither going in nor going out, the moment of stillness before momentous change. And then suddenly the tide begins to rush in again, life returns and pulsates into space. The constellations are shaken, the spheres give out their music once more, but this time new and different. Heaven dances, and 'A shiver of re-birth and deliverance on the Earth went gliding. 'Leprechauns dance, the Pheonix rises- astronomy and mytholodolgy, science and science fiction are oriented towards 'the cry of the One new born'. It is his way of saying that here, in this event, something decisive has happened to the constitution of the cosmos. This is the hiatus of hitory and the turning-point of time.
He has become one of us....
A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A shiny star lights up way up high
All across the land dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born
A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds have changed whisperin the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn
This comes to pass when a child is born
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And all of this happened
Because whe world is waiting
Waiting for one child
Black, white, yellow, no one knows
But a child that would grow up and turn tears to laughter
Hate to love, war to peace
And everyone to everyone's neighbour
Misery and suffering would be forgotten forever
~~
Its all a dream and illusion now
But it will come true, some time soon somehow
All across the land dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born
But it will come true, some time soon somehow
All across the land dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born
I think they are gorgeous, and I'm super proud of my son's art. So, here I am, showing off :) and I don't care what you think of his art or me showing off :)
