What Do I Want for Christmas?

Worship has completed. I came home to a quiet, still house. All seem asleep. Santa arrived. Its my quiet time after the full-ness of the Advent season and the additional full-ness of Christmas Eve night. As I sit here in our living room which is quite unlike what it will be in a few short hours, the words of this poem by Ann Weems speaks deeply to me.

What Do I Want for Christmas?

What do I want for Christmas?

I want to kneel in Bethlehem, the air thick with alleluias, the angels singing that God is born among us.

In the light of the Star, I want to see them come, the wise ones and the humble.

I want to see them come bearing whatever they treasure to lay at the feet of him who gives his life.

What do I want for Christmas? To see in that stable the whole world kneeling in thanks for a promise kept: new life.

For in his nativity we find ours.

Weems, Ann (1993-10-01). Kneeling in Bethlehem (Kindle Locations 290-304). Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. Kindle Edition.