God became poor;
God plumbed the depths;
God used body language;
God used means to save mean people;
God came as a foreigner to earth for our benefit;
God crossed the widest cultural chasm in the cosmos;
Meaning became matter in a moment,
Matter became movement,
Meaning moved us.
Matter matters for God,
For the Ultimate became intimate.
The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings is Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely and Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.
Thank you, Graham, for a Christmas poem! From your past Christmas offerings, the metaphors and word-choices have lingered longest in my memory. The severing of the cord in The Cord, for example, has certainly been a biological stimulus to the theological imagination. This year, I suspect, the playful murmur of ems in the latter half will stick in the same way.
http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/articles/a-cord/