Christmas - Enriched by His Poverty

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus, how that though He was rich,
yet for our sakes He became poor - that we through His poverty
might become rich. -- St. Paul

The poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins puts it like this -
     Across my foundering deck shone
     A beacon, an eternal beam . . .

     In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
     I am all at once what Christ is,
    Since He was what I am . . .