“Humbled, I Boast”

Okay, one thing about me: I usually hate poetry.

However, during my time in Ireland, my amazing Irish Literature professor, Derick Bingham who just died this past year from leukemia, gave us the assignment to write a poem in response to C.S. Lewis take on the Incarnation as expressed in his book "Miracles". Lewis essentially say that the true test of some thing's greatness, is its ability to enter into the little. And this is exactly what Jesus did when God sent Him to the earth. Something great, pure, and undefiled coming to a broken, sinful, dirty place. He left Heaven to come to Earth.

As I forced myself to write the poem, I knew I had to at least write about something I loved so I chose Christmas. Now, this may sound unintentionally prideful but I loved it and I still do. This is because any time I get caught up in the bustle and excitement of the holiday season, I can look at my poem and re-focus. I can remember what it is really all about.

So I hope you enjoy it and more importantly, I hope you are finding time to revel in the mysterious of God taking man form, all for the sake of you. To save you and let you live a life that will end in mansions and streets of gold and this permanent feeling of Christmas time that is I love so much. (I get giddy thinking about this feeling being permanent!!) I can't wait to go Home...and no, not Little Rock, Minnesota, Siloam Springs, or even Ireland...my final home.

Merry Christmas everybody!

The poem:

It is time
Christmas is coming again
The time I love the most
This year, there is an even greater hope
In something new I now boast

Jesus birth I’ve always known
But never felt the magnificence
Until my eyes were truly opened
To see the real difference

The power of something great
To enter into something less
By sending Jesus to the earth
There are millions God did bless

Something so Holy
Coming to a place so dirty
Becoming our sin
That we may live again

Everything must come
Everything must go
But the magnitude of Christ
One day, everyone will know

The day I stand before His Throne
Because of what He did
Letting something Great enter the Little
The heart of me, just a kid

So it is time
Christmas is coming again
The time I love the most
This year, there is an even greater hope
In something new I now boast