This Holy Night

The cold stillness of a Middle Eastern winter night

Enveloped all in its majestic blue velvet arms

With a dotted cloak of cosmic light

Like so many other nights before and after

Yet so truly unlike any other

This holy night

From which time nothing would remain unchanged

In it all prophecy would be fulfilled

All revelation complete

And the world would never since be the same.

To those not nearby that holy night seemed like all others

But to those blessed to witness this night of all nights

The world began again anew

A new creation, life reborn and renewed

In the light of all majesty,

The imponderable span of space and time,

Beyond the expanse and grandeur of all creation

The gates of heaven now opened forever

By the little helpless child of an earthly mother

The creator, self created

Until the end of time with us here forever

Then again forever in heaven

Emmanuel , God with us

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