The following three Christmas poems were written by Jews for Jesus and have appeared in our Newsletter. If you'd like to share any or all of them with friends, family or your church family this Christmas season, you are welcome to duplicate them. Do please credit the authors, and the Jews for Jesus newsletter.
Front Row
by Ruth Rosen
On a clear night
Obscure they trudged through miles of layered grains.
Shepherds seeking a Bethlehem shed;
A hovel housing the promise of glory in straw and precious proximity;
A king who would not be piqued by simple society offering rustic reverence.
Crossing the sea of shifting sand peripheral people came
To gaze at the center of the universe.
Their visit perhaps a portent to a world turned upside down.
Unable to pay the price of admission to the presence of Holiness, they were
Ushered, angelstruck, to the front row.
Shepherds standing before a manger, they were just
Low enough to see the High King.
Christmas Presence
by Ruth Rosen
God's gift was wrapped
without paper or bows
just swaddling clothes
and all His glory.
God's gift unwrapped one
day would be
hung on a tree—
no decoration
just liberation
for those who believe.
But for now no danger
just peace in a manger.
Shepherds held rapt without
paper or bows
gazed at swaddling clothes
and all His glory.
They saw His tiny fingers
uncurl
Who once had hurled
stars into space.
He still lives
He still gives
God's Christmas Presence.
They Followed the Star
by Moishe Rosen
It was His star
That beckoned from afar.
Glinting, gleaming, mysteriously it called
To the few whose greatest wisdom was
The knowledge that they must go
And pay homage to that Baby Jew.
Fueled by hope, they journeyed long
And came to the King who was not theirs
Until He died…and rose again…
And became the Guiding Star of all mankind.
