This is the fourth of five new poems for Advent, 2022.
For poems for Advent 4, Year A, please see Fourth Sunday of Advent (A)
Emmanuel
“Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.” (Matthew 1:23)
Wee Word
When we’re at a loss, we look for a savior,
Someone to get us out of a mess,
A mess which has made us all, in a word, desperate.
The desperation addressed by Isaiah,
The impending loss of nationhood,
Came in one word, Emmanuel, a child to be born.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, they say.
But God with us, with faith, hope, and love,
Still fells all that would defeat us with just one wee word.
Scott L. Barton
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