We have been so busy

We have been so busy

We have been so busy with the Christmas story,

Adding to it – tinkering – as we saw fit:

Here a donkey; there a little lamb;

To carry Mary, worship at the cradle of the great “I AM”.

Conjuring a full-blown history for the Magi;

Balancing equations: three gifts means three givers:

‘X’ must equal ‘Y’.

Placing all within a ‘stable’, some prefer, beneath the ‘inn’, a cave,

Where Mother Mary, in a manger, laid the baby ‘born to save’.

Certain sure there was a maiden and a babe,

A carpenter, a choir of angels, and perhaps an astrolabe,

Some shepherds …yes… at Bethlehem,

As God-With-Us came clothed in flesh, once, way back when.