A Simple Birth

A Simple Birth

The Greatest Gift is Often 

The One We Least Expect.

A simple birth, aided by another; one who Mary knew quite well;

In the lower room of their common peasant home,

A room where animals came to lay.

Surrounded by a donkey, the family cow

and perhaps a sheep or two,

Mary gave birth to the first of her children;

Yeshua by birth, we know him as Jesus.

Mary’s relative, Elizabeth cradled baby Yeshua. 

And heard the cry of his first breath.

She cleansed him, then nestled Him

in the warmth of a blanket,

and laid him upon his mother’s breast,

where she first suckled him;

In the room where animals came to lay, 

simplicity was the manner of His birth;

Poverty, his condition—yet neither did it matter;

Simple, or poor. More than enough,

For it was  Joy which burst forth

And taught us the meaning of this wonderful night;

Simplicity, poverty and joy, borne out of God’s love for us.