There's a lot of talk (and rightly so) about what Christians might do through Advent to make Christmas more meaningful, closer to the purpose of celebrating incarnation etc. But at a recent Renovare gathering we began to think about how we might reclaim something of the truths of Christmas by taking seriously the twelve days of the season and sharing through them some common acts of discipleship and mission. We haven't come up with a plan just yet but I wonder what others would do / or are planning to do this year?
In the meantime the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has a new poem on the 12 days which is worth the reading ... it is published in the Christmas Radio Times... verse twelve (usually the 12 drummers drumming) reads:
Did they hear the drums in Copenhagen
banging out their warning
On the twelth day in Copenhagen
was global warming stopped in its tracks
By Brown and Barak and Hu Jintao
by Meles Zenawi and Al Sabban
by Yvo de Boer and Hedegaard
Did they strike a match
or strike a bargain
the politicos in Copenhagen
Did they twiddle their thumbs
Or hear the drums
and hear the drums
and hear the drums?
1 comment:
It's a brilliant version isn't it?
I was struck by the verse about the ladies who aren't dancing.
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