“Though heaven was His habitation and earth His footstool, He chose to lie as an infant in a manger, surrounded by horses and camels and mules. Though He laid the foundations of the earth, and worlds without number had rolled into orbit at His word, He chose to come into mortality among the beasts of the field. Though He had worn a kingly crown in the eternal courts on high, He chose to breathe as His first mortal breath the stench of a stable. Though He would one day come forth – born then in glorious immortality – with all power in heaven and on earth, for now, as the helpless child of a peasant girl, He chose to begin the days of his probation as none of Adam’s race had ever done before.”
(Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah Book 1, p 345)
Angels and Archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim throned the air,
But only His mother in her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved with a kiss.
- Christina Rosetti
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
(Art: Kissing the Face of God by Morgan Weistling)
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