The Nativity (C.S. Lewis)
Posted by tom | Dec 24, 2009On December 15, Worship Quote of the Week highlighted some Christmas thoughts from C.S. Lewis. Take a few minutes to join me in reflecting upon the below poem:
THE NATIVITY
Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow)
I see a glory in the stable grow
Which, with the ox's dullness might at length
Give me an ox's strength.
Among the asses (stubborn I as they)
I see my Savior where I looked for hay;
So may my beastlike folly learn at least
The patience of a beast.
Among the sheep (I like a sheep have strayed)
I watch the manger where my Lord is laid;
Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence
Some woolly innocence.
— C. S. Lewis, from POEMS, edited by Walter Hooper, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Posted at http://www.wqotw.org/quote.php?date=2009-12-15.
