Christmas comes with shades of warmth
With baking of sweet smelling cakes
With Christmas trees with stars a’ hung
And all the joy it awakes
The cards show me pictures of
Lazy cherubs floating about
Snow capped houses and winter moods
When merrily children shout
Carols telling Christmas tale
Sung with jingling bells around
Cards and hugs and gifts are given
Greeting with a joyous sound
But look at the first Christmas
Christmas two millennia ago
It tells a different story
Without the Christmassy glow
I see a woman in pain
Deep fear fills her soul as she
Oh awaits to bring forth a child
Waiting in deep agony
I see a waiting father
Who could find no inn to stay
And all he gives his coming child
Is sheep and horses and hay
I see few sleepy shepherds
Staring dazed at a twinkling star
Wond’ring at what I happ’ning with
Wise men coming from afar
I see a furious king
Whose anger knows no measure
“The child must die, must die”, says he
“For my kingdom’s good pleasure”
And amidst such strife I watch
With a heart filled with deepest awe
Ah! God the Creator become
A baby upon the straw