 It is the twenty-third day of Advent
God is With Us
The House of Christmas
Painting by Mags Smith
There fared a mother driven forth
Out of an inn to roam;
In the place where she was homeless
All men are at home.
The crazy stable close at hand,
With shaking timber and shifting sand,
Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand
Than the square stones of Rome.
To an open house in the evening
Home shall men come,
To an older place than Eden
And a taller town than Rome.
To the end of the way of the wandering star,
To the things that cannot be and that are,
To the place where God was homeless
And all men are at home.
G.K. Chesterton
(abridged)
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Cradled in a Manger, Meanly,
from mfiles.co.uk, used with permission
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