Post Giftmas

Post Giftmas
After the cards and gifts are opened and oohs and ahhs are heard,
What remains for us but to listen to the Word?
Wrappings torn and bows discarded, strewn about the tissue
What remains the issue?
The point of all the trees and trimming
Of all the songs and hymning
Is Immanuel: God with us
God
With
Us
Incarnate
Eternally
To be adored and
To be obeyed
Not only that baby in the manger laid
But the man on the cross and in the tomb and raised
Ascended and
Someday
Returning
"Oh come, let us adore Him, Christ, the Lord"