Emptying

[Christ Jesus], though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance,
he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.

Philippians 2:6-8

See now, the days are counting down
and, oh, the time is drawing near:
The Virgin's belly waxes round,
and soon the Savior will appear.

For Christ is emptying himself
to fill his mother's empty womb.
He binds his godhead into flesh,
and someday it shall fill the tomb.

Then he shall go to empty hell
and make of death an empty threat.
And then no tongue on earth shall tell
the fullness of his infant breath.

Then at the end, when all is done
and heaven spills out o'er the world,
the king of glory shall return:
Across the void, his sign unfurls.

Christ Jesus, fill our empty hearts
that we may bear you in our lives:
Then light shall fill our empty dark
and all our midnights shall be bright.

O come, as once you came to earth—
our empty hands embrace your own—
then we shall shine as, at your birth,
the hosts of heaven sang and shone.