One of my favorite poems

This poem by Rebekah Tempest is found in the Women's Devotional Bible. I shared it at 360 the first Christmas I blogged there. It's so good I wanted to share it again here.

Enticed by love
they came to see
God
in human frailty,
a newborn babe
at purest birth
delivered, squirming
to the earth.
This promised child
clutched in his hand
Salvation
sent at God's command.
But with salvation
death was brought,
and pain and suffering
too, were caught
entangled in his tiny palm;
flailed silently
into the calm
of night that held,
so innocently,
the Man
who'd set his people free.
- Rebekah Tempest