Today’s carol is “In the bleak midwinter”

Today’s beautiful poem-carol lays out three different reactions to the arrival of God. The earth is hard, unresponsive, cold and bleak; the heavens are ablaze with angels singing “Holy, Holy, Hallelujahs”; but the mother of God holds the baby and kisses him.

You don’t need to be high and holy to worship God, says Christina Rossetti. Be like Mary. Open your heart and love him.