God will dwell in peaceful hearts

each must make a safe place of his heart,
before so strange and wild a guest
as God approaches.
- Li-Young Lee

I really like this poem. It makes me picture God as if He were a wild, yet peaceful and curious, animal. With an animal like that we must first show it that we mean it no harm before it will approach us. Similarly, with God, we must make our heart a peaceful place where He can dwell. If we do that then He will come to us.

Source: Li-Young Lee's Nativity