L’Engle’s “Into the Darkest Hour” promises hope when everything is falling apart.
Tag Archives: Epiphany
The Stable Is Our Heart
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Epiphany: Seeking Our Heart’s Desire
In “Epiphany,” poet Dudley Delffs sees the star as our heart’s desire.
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Fable of the Third Christmas Camel
In this wonderful Epiphany fable by my father, a camel leaves the three magi to live the live envisioned in what they found in Bethlehem.
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A Light on the Darkling Road
George McKay Brown’s “Calendar of Kings” captures the gift of God in the world by dwelling on small moments.
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The Star Began Its Singing
A simple but powerful Epiphany poem by Scottish poet George Mackay Brown.
Epiphany: A Baby’s Cry, a Big Bang
Spiritual Sunday I love this Bruce Monroe Robison poem that updates the story of the Wise Men, imagining them acquainted with astrophysics and the Big Bang theory. As he sees it, Jesus’s infant cry also created a new universe, “the first whisper in the still tissue of space.” Matthew 2: Magi We have seen his […]
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A Pause in Time and the Soul’s Awareness
John Thorkild Ellison has two Epiphany poems in which the spirit enters when the poet has all but given up hope.
The Epiphany from a Camel’s Point of View
In a very engaging poem, Scott Bates tells the story of the Epiphany from the point of view of the came of one of the Wise Men.
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What in Me Is Dark Illumine
An epiphany is the moment when something divine enters the human realm. During the Epiphany season, Christians celebrate such moments. In the famous opening of “Paradise Lost,” Milton notes that the Holy Spirit is his muse and connects his own inspiration with a number of famous visitations of the Holy Spirit throughout Biblical history.
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