See What Santa Brought!

Santa, a.k.a Cynthia, sent me a present for the day and what joy to discover this lovely collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson, "God's Trombones".  Based on Biblical themes, this is an American classic.  I immediately turned to the third poem, "The Prodigal Son" with it's famous opening stanza:

Young man --
Young man --
You're arm's too short to box with God.

It's a shame these days that outside of a handful of HBCU, Johnson is all but forgotten.  Joyous day for me, though.