{"id":13655,"date":"2023-12-22T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=13655"},"modified":"2023-12-22T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:51:43","slug":"the-risk-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/advent\/the-risk-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risk of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Christmas poem written by Madeleine L&#8217;Engle in 1973 but sounding incredibly timely for all of us living in a troubled world today:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is no time for a child to be born,<br \/>\nWith the earth betrayed by war &amp; hate<br \/>\nAnd a comet slashing the sky to warn<br \/>\nThat time runs out &amp; the sun burns late.<\/p>\n<p>That was no time for a child to be born,<br \/>\nIn a land in the crushing grip of Rome;<br \/>\nHonour &amp; truth were trampled by scorn \u2014<br \/>\nYet here did the Saviour make his home.<\/p>\n<p>When is the time for love to be born?<br \/>\nThe inn is full on the planet earth,<br \/>\nAnd by a comet the sky is torn \u2014<br \/>\nYet Love still takes the risk of birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jayphoto?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Justin Wolff<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-comet-is-seen-in-the-night-sky-7a4F2FW32z4?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas poem written by Madeleine L&#8217;Engle in 1973 but sounding incredibly timely for all of us living in a troubled world today: This is no time for a child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[64,138,778,167],"class_list":["post-13655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-madeleine-lengle","tag-peace"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Risk of Christmas &#8211; 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