Epiphany Eve

Epiphany -- o thank God, the three gentiles (the kings or wisemen, what have you) .. faithfully following the star that called their name and sang them all the journey through..those ones, have finally come to their place of their heart's desire.

May God bless any seeker this year for he promises that if we seek God with a whole heart, we will find God. (Jer. 29.13).

Fra Angelico

From Malcolm Guite..

Epiphany

It might have been just someone else’s story,

Some chosen people get a special king.

We leave them to their own peculiar glory,

We don’t belong, it doesn’t mean a thing.

But when these three arrive they bring us with them,

Gentiles like us, their wisdom might be ours;

A steady step that finds an inner rhythm,

A  pilgrim’s eye that sees beyond the stars.

They did not know his name but still they sought him,

They came from otherwhere but still they found;

In temples they found those who sold and bought him,

But in the filthy stable, hallowed ground.

Their courage gives our questing hearts a voice

To seek, to find, to worship, to rejoice.