Earth's Crammed with Heaven

. . . Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware. . . . *

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, vii

Christ's birth symbolizes earth’s crammed with heaven, revealing this is the way it is all the time. But most of us don’t see it and therefore don’t take off our shoes and bow down. We would be reminded that divinity is incarnate in the universe, the earth, and even us humans; that history is good because the eternal is born every now.

Verily, we would again be made aware of this good place, this right time, this gracious bounty, so that we pluck and daub and live the good life of celebration. ~jpc

Eat, drink, and be merry, for today we live. Namaste.

*original punctuation altered