Book Description

This beautiful and gentle book of Advent and Christmas devotions takes its inspiration from the much beloved poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti, In the Bleak Midwinter. The poem is gentle, wise, full of faith, drawing us into mystery, touching the deep longings of the human heart with images that evoke wonder ...[It] focuses on incarnation, an act of full grace when "heaven cannot hold him." This grace comes to a humble place of human birth, to the humanity of Mary and to our own humanity, in the midst of divine angelic presence. So these meditations focus on the paradox, tension, pull, and contradiction experienced in the coming of Christ from heaven to earth.