SOURCE: L’Engle, Madeleine. Winter Song. New York: Vanguard Press, 1961.
KEYWORDS: Sin, Incarnation, Broken, Healing, Survival, Resistance, Christmas, Jesus
Winter Song is a collection of poems by Madeleine L'Engle that meditates on winter as a season of waiting, silence, and hard-won hope. The poems engage themes of faith, doubt, suffering, and incarnation with theological seriousness and emotional restraint.
The Maker’s hand flung stars across the night with angels bursting forth from galaxies, new music singing from the spheres in harmonies that blessed the dancing of the first-born light.
And then the light was darkened by an earth dimmed by torn dreams, saddened by shrill pride. Stars faded, lost their story, and died. The dance distorted in strange lies and anger. Love’s hand again was lifted. In a manger again the Maker of the stars gave birth.
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