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Herein Lies Power

Advent Readings, Part I

Herein Lies Power

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"Herein is power;
    when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
    he united them in indissoluble unity,
      the uncreated and the created."

— “The Gift of Gifts,” of The Valley of Vision.

Herein lies power:
A crying child birthed in blood,
Coming for all, by blood, to birth renewed, at Whose command
Angelic forms obey, and Who, emerging from God's lip
At the beginning, slayed the dragon and stretched its scaly hide
Across the expanse, a mobile spinning above the Son of Man.

In that wakeful hour,
When 'round the manger shepherds stood,
Behold! sustainer of all worlds become as gentle as a breath,
The immaterial creator God possessing an infant's grip,
Cleaving now to natures made and unmade, in Him, unified.
Come, child, creator, king, conqueror of death.

D.A. Bishop writes

, which you ought to read from tail to snout before Advent ends. — KL

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