Winter Light

Some verse for a winter morning in the days after Epiphany:

He came when he wasn’t expected
as He always does,
though a few on the night-shift had the release early.

He came where he wasn’t expected
as He always does,
though a few mages were tipped off.

He came where even the Apostles couldn’t go along,
in Nazareth of all places, on the edge of nowhere;
they had to place it in David’s home town

He is always one step ahead of us;
the space-age calls for new maps
and its altars and holy places are not yet marked.

-- Amos Niven Wilder, from “Grace Confounding” (1972). Copyright by Fortress Press.

Amos Wilder was the older brother of the playwright Thorton Wilder.

The photo above was taken yesterday morning by friend, Leo. He was on the PATH train from Manhattan to Jersey City.