Alan Harris reading
A Christmas Light
by Alan Harris
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At Christmas some will doubt-- they'd rather see first-hand the legendary holy child than hear fine stories told. Some legends place a star above the manger scene to be a beacon guide to men who had wise gifts-- but if a body of heaven were wanted to remind folks nowadays of this child who was gifted and gave, why not the unassuming moon, whose quiet beaming gives us all an inner warmth akin to Yuletide happiness? Humbly shines this second light, relaying solar guiding rays to people lost within a night who wish to find a path. Who hasn't sometimes wished to thank the moon for glowing above a ride back home from church on Christmas Eve? The lowly moon a Christmas light? How daily seem its rays to us-- no special star sent from afar that never will be seen again. If peace and softness were required, the moon has both. If mystery were needed, where could more be found? Perhaps someone is in the moon, as nursery rhymes suggest-- let's grant this may be true, and this man or woman is you. The moon inside you is your inner manger birth, and you inside the moon shine gifts upon the earth. |
From the book Flies on the Ceiling (1999)
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