Chew on This!

On this blessed eve before Christmas, my prayer is that you will take time to ponder. Ponder isn't a word we use a lot in today's world, but it's the perfect word to convey the effort of digging deep, gleaning treasure, and mulling it over and over again. And if you've no idea where to start in this task of pondering, I'd like to give you some food for thought with the help of one of my favorite authors, Madeleine L'Engle . 

As you read the quotation below, please don't read it only once. To really ponder it, you need to...let me give you a good analogy here...you need to be like a cow. A cow takes in its food, chews it, digests it, and then the food moves down into one of the cows multiple stomachs. A little while later, the food is brought up again to be chewed on a little more, for a little longer, and then digested again. That process is exactly the essence of pondering. And this thought deserves to be considered in that way -

"Was there a moment, known only to God, when all the stars held their breath, when the galaxies paused in their dance for a fraction of a second, and the Word, who had called it all into being, went with all his love into the womb of a young girl, and the universe started to breathe again, and the ancient harmonies resumed their song, and the angels clapped their hands for joy?"