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The Sufferer's Holiday


In a wonderful blog post, which you can find at http://everysquareinch.net/christmas-the-sufferers-holiday/, the author describes Christmas as the sufferer's holiday. Christ came to suffer for us. He came into a broken world full of suffering to bring an end for all the pain. He has broken sin's curse in eternity and one day will end its existence in this world. Christmas is truly a holiday about suffering and its hopeful conclusion, one glorious day.

Btw, Kyrie and Yahweh do rhyme if they are pronounce correctly. :) The word Kyrie is latin for "Lord" Yahweh" means "I am". Every stanza of the poem reads "Lord I am".

Kyrie

Evil and wretched pain do us flay

Fragmented, fractured; filled with dismay.

Yahweh

Emmanuel come to stay

Entering our rotting vessels of clay

On this----the sufferer's holiday.

Kyrie

We are sin's most piteous prey

Tormented by folly; easily led astray.

Yahweh

He that calms fears; does sorrow allay

Penetrating the fray

On this----the sufferer's holiday.

Kyrie

Intimacy with affliction You did convey

As with grief You did Yourself array

Yahweh

Death's conqueror in desperate agape

Delivering hope's sweet bouquet

On this----the sufferer's holiday.

Kyrie

The glorious riches of Your limitless grace You display

For in You the darkness can hold no sway.

Yahweh

He who did the fearsome price pay

To carve out faith's narrow way

On this----our suffering Savior's holy day.


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