Joseph Bednarik presents Opening the Barn Door
In his poem "the lamb was bleating softly," Juan Ramon Jimenez imagines being in Bethlehem two thousand years ago: "I opened the barn door to see if/He was there./He was!" As we approach the generous mysteries of Christmas, let's pull open the barn door of our heart to marvel at the holy child inside us.

Joseph Bednarik is the Co-Publisher at Copper Canyon Press, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetry. He studied philosophy at Haverford College and speaks regularly at UU congregations throughout the Puget Sound region.