Choosing Joy
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| (Annunciation by Ivanka Demchuk - found here) |
Since Adam, being free to choose,
Chose to imagine he was free
To choose his own necessity,
Lost in his freedom, Man pursues
The shadow of his images:
Today the Unknown seeks the known;
What I am willed to ask, your own
Will has to answer; child, it lies
Within your power of choosing to
Conceive the Child who chooses you.
~W. H. Auden (from “For the Time Being – A Christmas Oratorio”)
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