Tag: #poetryinadvent

  • Barn in Bethlehem: A Meditation on Place

    Peter Paul Rubens, The Nativity of Christ, from the Missale Romanum, 1616, Engraving on laid paper, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library I will go to the barn in Bethlehem;there, the beautiful baby lies in the trough the animalsshare with him.  Looking on with welcoming eyesthey receive the Little One as next-of-kin,awake, unafraid his face aglow – he wiggles…