Thinking of the Child

I often wonder what it must have been like that night so long ago....when Christ was born. What went through the minds of the shepherds and Mary and Joseph?

Thinking of the Child

Gaze in wonder

At the Child-King

Given to redeem

People like me

So small

And helpless

Yet given to conquer

My greatest enemy

Laid in a wooden manger

Wrapped in simple cloths

One day to be laid

Upon a wooden cross

Come to destroy

The power of sin

This wondrous child

The greatest of gifts.