¿Dónde está el Rey de los judíos que ha nacido? Porque vimos su
estrella en el oriente y hemos venido a adorarle. (Mateo 2:2)
¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de los. judíos. We are using an interlinear
Spanish/English, Nueva Testament/New Testament provided by the Gideons.
My patient teacher makes me pronounce each word over and over until
my pronunciation is correct enough.
¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de
los. judíos. / ¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de los. judíos. / ¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de
los. judíos. / ¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de los. judíos. Porque vimos su estrella
en el oriente y hemos venido a adorarle.
The D Antiphon?
Around us, there is lunch
and improvising decorations, incredible grace and kindness.
¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de los. judíos.
I am grateful to see the
old man in his grey maxi-skirt and dirty kicks. He taught High School mathematics
for years before he lost the struggle to quiet the voices in his head with
booze and when that stopped working, weed and stronger things. He somehow successfully
dodged the draft and outwitted those sent to arrest him by coming north but
President Carter’s pardon did not extend to schizophrenia. He is reading the
New York Times and eating chocolate cake.
¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de
los. judíos.
Table decorations are
being made from a discarded gift bag and silver and red garland from the
pre-Christmas sale bin at Walgreens. They will stay in the kitchen, I am told
because the weekend office worker spent her entire shift last Sunday hand making
ornaments for the little artificial tree in the living room. It would be wrong
to detract from her gracious gift by adding to it.
¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de
los. judíos.
On the ground floor are five parents, four
mothers and a father with young children. They travel from church to church
every night so that they do not have to sleep outside. During the day, they can
stay here. A board, slouch postured young teen watches something on the TV I
don’t quite understand. There are no beds or couches. A preschooler girl sleeps
hard on the tile floor wrapped in an old comforter, another in a long discarded
stroller. There is a beautiful boy, about a second grader, with long wild curly
hair telling his father numbers from a book. The women, I’ve been told, have
been asking for blankets for the children.
¿Dónde. Está. el Rey. de
los. judíos.
When the Spanish lesson
and our kitchen decorations are done, I retrieve the bag of blankets I have in
the car.
Porque vimos su estrella
en el oriente y hemos venido a adorarle.
Amen.
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