Born to Wear the Crown The Single Purpose of Christmas and Easter

Too often Christmas and Easter are viewed as two separate events in the life of Jesus. They, indeed, do mark two events…the beginning and ending… of our Savior’s life… but together these “events” fulfill the Singular Purpose of His life.
These two poems, Godson and The Magnificent Difference, illustrate one man’s understanding of the purpose, meaning, and connection of these two spectacular events, in this remarkable gift of Salvation from God.
Richard Gordon is a poet-playwright living in Lake Elsinore,, California. He is the author of Martin and The Mountaintop: An illustrated Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His play Bulldog and the Bear, won the coveted Lorraine Hansberry and the Michale Kanin playwriting awards. For over twelve years, Mr. Gordon taught Oral Interpretation at California State University at Fullerton.
In his own words:
“The joy of Life… the Joy of people… has always been the underlying themes of my work. For the past forty years I have been writing… not as a “writer” per se, but as a husband, celebrating his wife, and as a father lifting his children in song… and now as a grandfather soaring with my grandkids.”
I am at a stage in my life when I ask: Why do I create?”
Well, the answer becomes clearer every day. I create because I have a great desire to share my sensibilities with the world.
Joy, and its source, is what I seek to share most.