A Christmas Easter!

It’s wonderful to ponder the Christmas season –

Perhaps to reflect on what it might bring?

Is it really so much about the person –

or in our lives, what He actually means?

The spirit and joy and awe of this time –

is echoed throughout nations aplenty,

and celebrated with much anticipation -

this event that has changed the lives of many.

Hearts seem to be touched as never before –

as we ponder the infants’ mission to come.

That’s when we begin to realize so clearly -

what happened when His childhood was done?

And the mission He came to accomplish –

which, at this time, we don’t surmise,

because it’s overshadowed by His birth –

and not about the cross, on which He had died.

Inclined to journey to a place in time –

led by the Spirit to a dessert land.

It seems to be the place to go –

as the infant grew, from childhood into man.

May we already be graced to know –

that this season of Christmas is just the beginning,

only to be drawn to a place called Calvary –

for that’s where this infant would find His ending.

He lived a life of unconditional love –

the message given on the roads He did trod,

inviting all who would listen, to follow Him -

for our salvation, in the end, He would nod.

And so, as we take a preview of what was to be –

this Christmas Easter began in the crib where He laid,

with Sheppard’s in the field, on that first Christmas eve -

‘for our eternal life’, the price our Infant Savior paid!

@Steve A. Politte

12/23/2005