Narrowing Sonnet

Could we put oceans in a cup, a desert in an hour-glass, the skies in a falling rain-drop, the planets in a marble-bag, it wouldn’t touch the Lord, swaddled in a body, who also humbly wore the girdle of our laws, was threaded through the streets of Jews, endured the spit and then was split…

Inside Out

Photo from http://milkshakemelody.com/figurvore/index.php?topic=1183.0 The other night I read my son a Little Golden Book about Jesus’s birth.  Making theology meaningful to a three year old is no easy task.  Still, I wanted the incarnation of God to be more concrete.  My son likes babies so I started out talking about how Jesus was born a little…