{"id":134,"date":"2008-12-21T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2008\/12\/the-rebirth-of-wonder.html"},"modified":"2008-12-21T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T18:13:00","slug":"the-rebirth-of-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/12\/the-rebirth-of-wonder.html","title":{"rendered":"THE REBIRTH OF WONDER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following is another poem from my book ‘The Living Legacy’
BW3<\/p>\n

Jaded, Jaundiced
Left out in the cold,
Cynical, clinical
Tired of getting old
Looking for something,
More glittering than gold\u2026
The rebirth of wonder.<\/p>\n

Seeking, searching
Coming from afar
Reaching, lurching
Wishing on a star
Wise guys, shepherds
Bordering on bizarre
Where\u2019s the boy wonder?<\/p>\n

Child-like, crawling
Wide-eyed, on his knees
Compact, contact
With everything he sees
Babbling, bobbling
Hoping to believe
Wandering towards wonder.<\/p>\n

Silence, science
Analysis complete
Seeing, being
Honest but discreet
Empirical evidence
Incarnation\u2019s feat
Makes you wonder.<\/p>\n

Believing\u2019s seeing
Not blinded by the light
Seeing\u2019s believing
Leaves one in the night
Longing, aching,
Couldn\u2019t love be right?
Wonderfully contrite. <\/p>\n

Unveiled, unabashed
Breaks into the world
Shattering the smatterings
Of reasons we have heard
\u2018Why it could never be,
Of course it is absurd\u2019
Until she bore the Word.<\/p>\n

Child birth, new birth
Coming from the womb
Fine wine, wonderbread
Placed upon the plate,
Revelation, consummation
Never out of date,
The rebirth of wonder.<\/p>\n

BW3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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