Christmas Day

Advent 2025

O God

with
us

O word 
of light,
sun-spoken brilliance,
night-spinning 
song-shimmering stars, 

O voice 
of life,  
soil-bursting 
air-rushing 
sea-swarming delight, 
your breath into ours,

you 
unknowable
knower
unreachable
reacher,
you the one
to walk with us, find us,
send us out cursed
and pull us close

O
God
of floods,
of rams and ladders,
plagues and fiery shrubs,
God of heaven bread,
stony water, 
serpents,
God we fear
and long for

We write our songs
to you, we fight
you and we fight
for you, we flee, 
we lust 
and repent,
we weep,
we wait, we pray, we 
wonder if maybe
you 
sleep,

we reign
poorly
and afraid, 
we rage, waste, hunger,
hope
we kill
the things you made,

we
wait.

O 

God

we hold
you

you!—
the impossible

we hold
you, God, and we will 
raise you and wreck
you, we will love
and murder you, 

and you

will go,

you will do it.

That one moment the single
breath of 
eternity, the voice
silenced
and then 

the shattering
of hell, 
the final dying 
of death, the out-
bursting of the light
burning darkness forever.

We
are
yours. 

You hold us
God, you
hold 
us and

you 
come 
to us
always.