The Gift of Gifts

"O God,  take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds,
    and enlarge my mind;
  let me hear good tidings of great joy,
    and hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, adore,
  place me with ox, ass, camel, goat,
    to look upon my Redeemer's face,

    and in him account myself delivered from sin;

  let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child
    to my heart,

  embrace him with undying faith,

  exulting that he is mine and I am his.

In him thou hast given me so much

    that heaven can give no more."

"The Gift of Gifts" The Valley of Vision, pg. 29

Merry Christmas!