*The Homelessness of the Wise

The three wise men or women,

 if you will 

had to leave home 

to go in search 

of the Great Mystery 

calling to them 

from the night sky.

To seek the divine 

in the human

is, always, to leave home - to leave

those comfortable ways 

of thinking 

and feeling 

that are no longer 

enough.

This is the homelessness 

of the wise 

who find new birth 

again and again.  

This is gift.

This is the Christmas story

You and I.

-Jerry Schroeder,  Cap.