CQOD—Drummond: Run, shepherds, run

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Friday, December 15, 2023

Drummond: Run, shepherds, run

Meditation:

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.

—Galatians 4:4-5 (NIV)

Quotation:

Run, shepherds, run where Bethlem blest appears,

We bring the best of news, be not dismay’d,

A Saviour there is born, more old than years,

Amidst heaven’s rolling heights this earth who stay’d

In a poor cottage inn’d, a virgin maid

A weakling did him bear, who all upbears;

There is he poorly swaddl’d, in manger laid,

To whom too narrow swaddlings are our spheres:

Run, shepherds, run, and solemnize his birth,

This is that night—no, day, grown great with bliss,

In which the power of Satan broken is;

In heaven be glory, peace unto the earth!

Thus singing, through the air the angels swam,

And cope of stars re-echoed the same.

... William Drummond (1585-1649), The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden, v. II, London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1894, p. 7-8 (see the book)

Quiet time reflection:

Lord, Your poverty has made Your people rich indeed.

See yesterday

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