A subeversive gift of Peace

​In the Christ child born in poverty in a stable the divine brings a subversive gift; 
The gift of a powerless baby where the world demanded a king, 
the gift of vulnerability and innocence where the world wanted a warrior and justice, 
the gift of peace where the world was preparing for war.

And what I like in this story is the presumption that the gift of peacemaking is ordinary 

and in all of us. We are all princes/princess of peace, 

we all have the divine child of hope within, 

and the gift of Christmas becomes the turning of swords into ploughshares.

(Rev G Bannon)