Article: A Poem For Christmas

A Poem For Christmas

We remember the birth of a babe this day,

born in a stable, his bed filled with hay,

heralded by angels and searched for by kings

but whose life would be full of much simpler things.



His mother, Mary, a woman of faith and trust,

His father, Joseph, a carpenter, honest and just -

for although nigh to Mary he had not been

God told him to take her to wife, in a dream.



And so they were wed and began their life,

Joseph - the carpenter - and Mary, his wife.

And came the time close when her confinement would be

and out of Judaea there came a decree.



A census was ordered, taxation was due,

families must, to the towns, of their births, return to,

and so to unto Bethlehem Joseph ...
 

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