Advent to Candlemas (Vol. 4)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. No Halo
  2. God's Love in the Flesh of a Baby
  3. Half a Story
  4. Askew
  5. For Our Little Lamb
  6. Honour All
  7. A Strange Story
  8. Lily
  9. The Baptist's Cry
  10. Pity the Dark
  11. Body and spirit
  12. Sparks
  13. Fleeter than Donkeys
  14. Smiles
  15. Going Back
  16. Dream
  17. Salvation's Dam
  18. Stars
  19. The Baby King
  20. If We Could Change Places
  21. Children
  22. Spring Dream
  23. Good Cheer!
  24. How?
  25. When Jesus Came
  26. The Christmas Show
  27. Shown to the World Epiphanies
  28. Strange Dreams
  29. A Child of Blood and Fire
  30. Weak but Smiling
  31. Ruler of All
  32. Journeys
  33. The Apple
  34. Sing Noel
  35. Mistletoe and Holly
  36. The Day of His Birth
  37. Heaven Knows Why
  38. No Coat for This Poor Lamb
  39. Only A Woman
  40. Mary's Child
  41. On Beauty
  42. The Visit
  43. Simeon's Death
  44. Halo
  45. 'Tis Christmas
  46. Child for Us All
  47. Difference
  48. Pageant
  49. Now Thank We God
  50. It is for Love

Halo

The golden halo round his head
And satin bright as flowers,
Are marks of power inherited
To signify his heavenly powers.

But pretty as the scene might be,
Depicting pomp and fuss,
He set aside his dignity
And came here to be one of us.