The Christian’s Joy

This is the Christian’s joy:

I know that I am a thought in God,

no matter how insignificant I may be –

the most abandoned of beings,

one no one thinks of.

Today, when we think of Christmas gifts,

how many outcasts no one thinks of!

Think to yourselves, you that are outcasts,

you that feel you are nothing in history:

“I know that I am a thought in God.”

Would that my voice might reach the imprisoned

like a ray of light, of Christmas hope –

might say also to you,

the sick,

the elderly in the home for the aged,

the hospital patients,

you that live in shacks and shantytowns,

you coffee harvesters trying to garner your only wage

for the whole year,

you that are tortured:

God’s eternal purpose has thought of all of you.

He loves you,

and, like Mary,

incarnates that thought in his womb.

Oscar Romero