A Widening Light: Poems of the Incarnation

by Luci Shaw (Editor)

Overview

"I can think of no other anthology which celebrates with such intensity the entire drama of the Christian faith. Here we have a host of poets praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest.' A Widening Light moves the reader through recognitions and meditations toward prayer." (Harold Fickett)

"Luci Shaw has compiled perceptions both delicate and powerful of Jesus the 'baby prince, ' the Man, the golden Lion, Jesus Christ the Lord. For those who love poetry and those who think they don't, I recommend a slow and thoughtful reading of this lovely book. Each page reflects from a different angle the Light of the World." (Elisabeth Elliott)

"A Widening Light ranks as one of the very best anthologies of Christian poetry." (John H. Timmerman)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573830249
Publisher:	Regent College Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2000
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.62(h) x 0.39(d)

Table of Contents

	First Light	7
	A Quintina of Crosses	8
	Annunciation	9
	Too much to ask	10
	Christmas dream	11
	Christmas Eve, Jerusalem Road	12
	The risk of birth	13
	After annunciation	13
	Housekeeper	14
	Advent	14
	Hewn hands	15
	Birth of our Lord	16
	Advice for the calendar	17
	... for who can endure the day of his coming	18
	Anno Domini, 1980	20
	O Sapientia	21
	Shine in the dark	22
	Night's lodging	23
	At Christ's birth	23
	Judah's Lion	24
	Lion, Lamb	24
	Like every newborn	25
	Truer gifts	26
	God given	27
	O Simplicitas	28
	Star witness	29
	God tries on skin	30
	Made flesh	31
	Christmas program	32
	Prayer at the Advent Log	33
	The Nativity	34
	Some Christmas stars	35
	The groundhog	36
	Child	37
	In memory of Thomas Hardy	38
	This Christmas	40
	Away in a manger	41
	Snow	42
	Mary's song	43
	"Thou didst make me hope ..."	44
	Rich man	45
	A maze of the Magi	46
	Star song	47
	The crystal hexagon	48
	Christ-hymn	49
	First parting	51
	Who was himself looking for the kingdom of God	52
	Creator	54
	Craftsman	55
	Chance	56
	The Dove	57
	Jordan River	58
	Tempted	59
	A metaphor made of bread & stones	60
	The water turned to wine	61
	Other seeds fell into good soil	62
	Take heart, it is I: Have no fear	63
	Uprising	64
	The loss	65
	Before Abraham was...	66
	The sighting	67
	Breaking blindness	68
	Ordinary loaves and fishes	70
	The endless remnant	71
	The Good Samaritan	72
	The unmerciful servant	73
	The Father	74
	A meditation	76
	He who would be great among you	78
	Upper room	79
	The sureness of this hour	80
	from Bloodcount II	81
	Christographia 2	82
	At Communion	83
	All these breads	84
	Two stanzas: the Eucharist	85
	Banquet song	86
	"Is it I?"	87
	Judas, Peter	88
	Cock-crowing	89
	Birth trauma	90
	Royalty	91
	The blessing	91
	The revolutionary	92
	Weeknights at the Cathedral	93
	How to decorate an egg Ukrainian style	94
	Foresight	95
	Flesh become Word	96
	Cross	96
	Craftsman	97
	Reminder	98
	Hands	98
	Hurting	99
	"Why hast thou forsaken me?"	100
	To a friend dying on Good Friday	101
	Lines after Herbert: Rondel	102
	Lovingkindness 1 & 2	103
	Tapestry for a reliquary of the True Cross	104
	Expectation	105
	Taking flesh	106
	Dead and buried	107
	Re-enactment	108
	Easter Saturday	109
	Plain fact	109
	I believe in the Resurrection	110
	Poem for Easter	110
	Quickening	111
	Rib cage	112
	Et Resurrexit Tertia Die	113
	Ode: entropy & Easter	114
	Mary	116
	Easter morning, yesterday	116
	Opening	117
	Christographia 31	117
	Christ's crown	118
	Seed	118
	Festival	119
	The comfort of rocks	120
	Easter magic	121
	To know him risen	122
	Wounded	123
	"Thou art he that took me out of the womb"	124
	Open	125
	Easter for five senses	126
	Companion	127
	Galilee outing	128
	Christographia 21	129
	The partaking	130
	The way the leaf falls	131
	Evergreen	132
	Christographia 14	133
	The foolishness of God	134
	The tree	135
	The Poets	137
	Acknowledgements	143