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The Christ in Christmas
With sublime humility,
the stage is set:
a manger with a bed of hay,
overhead a solitary star.
There, with no delay,
the immaculate one arrives.
His name is Jesus; his mother, Mary;
his father, Joseph.
Familiar?
We celebrate this newborn babe—
this “gentle beam of living Love,
And deathless Life!” Mary Baker Eddy, Poems, p. 29.
So whence cometh the Christ?
That is another story.
Maybe not so familiar.
Before the world was, the Christ is.
We read in the Bible’s book of Job:
“Where wast thou when I laid
the foundations of the earth? . . .
When the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Job 38:4, 7.
The Christ is without beginning or end,
infinite.
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