Tag Archives: Epiphany

The Stable Is Our Heart

By Robin Bates | Published: January 14, 2024

L’Engle’s “Into the Darkest Hour” promises hope when everything is falling apart.

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Epiphany: Seeking Our Heart’s Desire

By Robin Bates | Published: January 6, 2024

In “Epiphany,” poet Dudley Delffs sees the star as our heart’s desire.

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Fable of the Third Christmas Camel

By Robin Bates | Published: January 8, 2022

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

By Robin Bates | Published: January 2, 2021

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

By Robin Bates | Published: January 4, 2020

A simple but powerful Epiphany poem by Scottish poet George Mackay Brown.

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Epiphany: A Baby’s Cry, a Big Bang

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2019

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

By Robin Bates | Published: January 7, 2018

John Thorkild Ellison has two Epiphany poems in which the spirit enters when the poet has all but given up hope.

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The Epiphany from a Camel’s Point of View

By Robin Bates | Published: January 7, 2017

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

By Robin Bates | Published: January 9, 2016

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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