Today I'm joining the Five Minute Friday Community again, writing for five minutes on a given prompt. This week's word is DIFFERENT.
This time I thought I'd try my hand at a spontaneous five-minute Christmas poem. The picture above made me think of "a different star" and about the enjoyment God might get from creating a brand-new star to symbolize His brand-new revelation of Himself.
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A Different Star
Does it
seem ridiculous to say
there is
a different star in the sky tonight,
when the heavens
are already full of lights
flung
into space thousands of years ago
at the
dawn of God’s imagination?
Did the
Creator wake early again this morning, laughing
with anticipation,
saying, “Today I will do something
new,
something their minds could never
have conceived?”
How else to explain
the new
light in the sky, the sign
of the unlikely
birth that made all
the
difference in the world.
Awesome! He's no Max Von Sydow kind of Lord. He's always enthusiastic and so very different from the world's image. Love this! Thanks for visiting and I enjoyed the poem!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rebekah! I like to imagine God having fun and getting excited about His plans. I'm glad to connect with you at FMF this week; have a great weekend.
DeleteI loved your poem, Jeannie! It's amazing to imagine God's anticipation at what he was going to do in sending Jesus and to think of his joy at this stage in his plan being put into action!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lesley. I enjoyed writing this, and I'm glad you enjoyed reading it.
DeleteThe difference of a new creation, new life, and a new way of living - wonderful work, Jeannie.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tim! And I think Chesterton must have (still) been influencing me as I wrote this.
DeleteThis is so beautiful! I love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Tara. Glad it spoke to you.
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