Guest blog

I am pleased to introduce you to the lovely and talented Nicole Ensing!

BIO

Nicole Ensing is a Worship Coordinator and a singer/songwriter living in Guelph, Ontario. Ensing’s original music has been described as a combination of “jazz stylings with folk charm and rock ’n’ roll energy”. She also enjoys spending time with artists, either engaging in their studios or her own. www.nicoleensingband.com

WHERE ALL SOULS MEET

This time of year the Christmas favorites come out, and not just because my band has gigs lined up. While holiday shoppers are listening to remakes of remakes we look forward to sharing our original song, Child of the Snows, with audiences. Granted, we look forward to any opportunity to sneak this gem in but the Christmas season is when it really hits home. This song is about the nativity and it’s based on a poem by G.K. Chesterton of the same name. What strikes me today is the line “We follow the feet where all souls meet, at the inn at the end of the world.” I can’t help but think of the scene in C.S. Lewis’ book The Last Battle in which characters enter a door in a stable and find themselves in Aslan’s country. In Chesterton’s poem, we enter the stable and find an unlikely King, Christ, who promises hope in a harsh environment.

CHILD OF THE SNOWS ~ G.K. Chesterton

There’s heard a hymn when the panes are dim

And never before or again

When the nights are strong with a darkness long

And the dark is alive with rain

Never we know but in sleet and in snow

The place where the great fires are

The midst of the earth is a raging mirth

And the heart of the earth a star

And at night we win to the ancient inn

Where the child in the frost is furled

We follow the feet where all souls meet