Expectant

"What good does it do me 
if Christ was born in Bethlehem once 
if he is not born again in my heart 
through faith?"

Origen (184-254)

"What keeps you from projecting His birth 
into times that are in the process of becoming, 
and living your life 
like a painful and beautiful day 
in the history of a great gestation?"

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)