Christmas Is Coming!

This week, I share with you a poem -
“Twas the Night Before Christmas” 
re-written by Pastor Herb Brokering.  

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the earth,

every creature was stirring for a new baby birth.

The people were looking straight up and then down,

to the left and the right, in the country and town.

Some faces were watching far out in the sky

believing God’s Son would be coming by.

The Wise men were searching the heavens with care,

hunting signs of God’s love in the stars up there.

The Bethlehem children were snug in their beds;

they had dreams of olives and figs in their heads.

Shepherds were tired, weary and beat –

Their sheep had just “baaaed” their last sleepy bleat.

When up in the air there rose such a clatter,

they looked up and saw angels and said, “What is the matter?”

Up on their feet they stood straight and tall

to see hundreds of angels and hear angels call.

It sounded like glory and looked bright as can be,

it was hard to believe and so hard to see.

When what to wondering eyes should appear;

glory, glory around them so loud and so near.

It happened so sudden, it happened so quick!

Was it real? Was it true or was it a trick?!

More rapid than eagles, the shepherds came,

they found Mary and Joseph, and whispered His name.

It was Jesus, Jehovah, Messiah, the Son,

Emmanuel, the Lord – He is the one

And each one to their knees they fell down to the ground;

how good to receive the one they had found.

So up to the hillsides their running feet flew,

with their eyes full of Jesus and their hearts now like new!

Faraway, Wise men stood on a roof

searching the stars for Biblical proof.

“There, there!” each one shouted, “Out in the East!”

and mounted with speed their two-humped beasts.

They were filled with questions from head to toe,

asking” Where is the new king, we truly must know.

And three kinds of gifts they piled on camel’s back;

gold, frankincense, and myrrh in a sweet smelling pack.

Their eyes how they twinkled, big and red like a cherry

when down in the hay was a child beside Mary.

The king’s silent faces were stiff for awhile;

then, slowly their cheeks turned into a smile.

They saw God had given His Son to the earth;

they took up God’s gift and put theirs down on the earth.

They had nothing to do and nothing to say.

It was truly God’s world and this was God’s day!

The king with the gold had a little round tummy.

The Frankincense king smelled yummy, yum, yummy.

The presence of myrrh was in a small can.

Mary would put it on Jesus when he was a man.

The child blinked and turned his head and the kings,

they knew they had nothing to dread.

They spoke not a word, they headed for home, so

thankful to God that he surely had come.

Christ on earth; old things we like new –

Now people could see what God can do.

When people laugh or cry, get born or die,

 God’s glory is near and Jesus will come by.

It is the night before Christmas from the ground to the sky

and Jesus our brother will always come by.

So we know and you know that God is in sight.

Good morning to all and to all a good night!