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1981 Jonah 4.2

This poem discusses how the Christmas season can feel meaningless and hollow if one is too busy with business and pleasure to pause and reflect on the Christmas story of Jesus' birth. It encourages the reader to take time this Christmas to read the Christmas story again, which could fill their soul with glory. The poem suggests that missing opportunities to contemplate the miracle of Jesus' birth by the shepherds could cause one to wonder why the holiday seems empty.

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1981 Jonah 4.2

This poem discusses how the Christmas season can feel meaningless and hollow if one is too busy with business and pleasure to pause and reflect on the Christmas story of Jesus' birth. It encourages the reader to take time this Christmas to read the Christmas story again, which could fill their soul with glory. The poem suggests that missing opportunities to contemplate the miracle of Jesus' birth by the shepherds could cause one to wonder why the holiday seems empty.

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AT CHRISTMAS-TIME

IF you cannot pause, at Christmas-time


To read the Christmas story,
Or hear afresh the angels' song,
And glimpse the heavenly glory;
If your days are ftIled to overflow
With business or with pleasure;
If you never stop to bow the knee,
Or offer Him your treasure;
If you've missed the shepherds' midnight thrill That heavenly revelation And hastened not to Bethlehem
With eager expectation;
If you cannot see that Guiding Star
And feel no urge to follow Do you wonder that the Festival
Seems meaningless and hollow?

So why not pause, this Christmas-time,


To read again the story It could be just the word you need
To ftIl your soul with glory!
ERIC S. HORN

JONAH 4:2

o LORD, is this not what I said?


To spare them has long been my dread.
They're vile, and your cov'nant they hate;
They're cruel; and true justice can't wait.
So why do you cancel their sin?
Cl'mpassion is now stretched too thin:
You pardon, but can't hide guilt's spread.
o Lord, is this not what I said?

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Is anger the answer to need?
Must grace now be captive to greed?
If love can't extend to the vile,
Then how is my cov'nant worth-while?
Are you a great prophet, preferred Above all mankind - by a gourd?
Your anger's elitism's creed:
Is anger the answer to need?
D.A. CARSON

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