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Fear Not!

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone 'round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Fear not!
Have no fear
even when the night grows dark,
even when the midnight nears,
for he who made time and space
turns to you
comes to you
loves you
enough to
be born as one of you,
be born as the poorest of you,
there,
laying in a borrowed bed,
a feedbox
filled with hay,
no room for him
with the rich,
the powerful,
the busy,
the distracted,
the uncaring.

But even so,
still he comes,
and the night lights up
at the miracle
of love
that must sing through the night,
as the fabric
of normal life is ripped
to let in a new reality,
God with us
is born.

Fear not!

Such a love story,
he who is all,
becomes
a poor child,
who will know the taste of dust,
and rough clothes,
and hunger,
and skinned knees,
and the joy of friends,
and the loss of loved ones,
and the sorrow we bear
in pain,
in illness
in cruelty done to us,
in sin harbored in our hearts,
rejection and how it feels to receive hate,
and seeing the fullness of it,
he will stretch out his arms
in the most loving embrace,
as if to take us all in,
and crying out
will give his all,
bloody and beaten
and die of a broken heart
that we might live,
all for love.

Fear not!