Just pondering at Christmas about the delivery of Jesus and how every mother waits with eagerness and anxiety for the infants first breath, that moment between complete dependence and the onset of an independent life. Did all of heaven share that moment?
On the eve of Christ’s birth
did time stand still,
did heaven hush
in that brief pause
between Mary and birth,
until the first breath.
Creation’s air filling
the lungs of its creator
the everyday miracle
now miraculous.
God’s breath with us
making the way
for God’s breath in us.
Once again
and forevermore.