The Gift of Christ

Christmas Poem for Love Only Grows
Christmas Eve-Eve Concert + Poetry Reading
December 23, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m. CST

The Gift of Christ

A mother in the heart of prayer
Quietly waiting
For the unfoldment of joyful travail
The arrival of a newborn child,
The dawn of Immanuel.
 
Even the fulness of the Christ child
Born in the meekness of the night
Proves that something 
Far more than matter 
Shines resplendent and bright.

A mother’s affection cannot be weaned
…even when nailed to a cross
Despite her deepest fears
Neither his body nor his mission
Could be lost. 

From the humble stable of innocence
The Messiah reigns forevermore. 
In every place
and in every way, 
Christ’s love settles every score.

It comforts those who grieve,
Untangles each scornful snare.
Then sparrows of hope
 fly upward 
Uniting all in sweet, sacred prayer.

Spirit-Father Sovereign 
strengthen us
With your substance,
life, and Soul.

Mother Love of new creation
make us Christ-like, 
heavenly, 
Whole.

Oh sweet certainty of Science
Shining from above, 
Bring us a purer understanding,
The gift of perfect Love. 

Life in Christ is newness of Spirit,
Eternal, unbounded and vast,
that stems the waves of materialism 
Crashing in vain on a troubled past. 

Star of Being, shine forever,
We are emboldened by your might. 
Christ beholds what eye cannot see!

Immortality 

                   and 

                             Light.

COPYRIGHT 2025 Lindsey A. Roder