Christmas Story

Some Christians at Christmas

Follow custom, 
          and I am one,

Accede to gifts and Christmas cheer.

But deep inside my true devotion

Thinks most of Jesus, my Redeemer

And thanks God our Father

For the present of His Firstborn
          Savior-Son.

Luke and Matthew tell the story

Of Mary, Joseph, Gabriel,

Of donkey, journey, star and manger,

Anthems from the heavenly host

And  functions of the Holy Ghost.

Of witness of some watchful shepherds

Of Jesus Christ’s most humble birth.

Nazareth and Bethlehem are in the story

As are wise men from the east,

A Jewish priest named Zacharias

With his good wife Elizabeth.

Jealous Herod, death of infants,

Simeon, Anna at the Temple 
          Service for Messiah give,

Naming  John and infant Jesus

Rounding out the Christmas story

Of stirring events in old Judea

            Begun that all mankind might live.