What happened that day in Bethlehem

that even today many struggle to believe.

A baby, born in a stable, to lowly Mary?

Change the world? To hard to conceive.

Yet today 2000 years later the whole world,

stops, as we celebrate this day.

Many deriding, openly disclaiming, yet,

it’s still called “Christ”mas whatever they say.

The detractors protecting their own interests,

just like that first Christmas time.

Others too busy with life’s pleasures and demands,

to them life seems okay, just fine.

But on that day their were some who were told

something of what was about to take place.

From all spectra’s of life, yet each able to see

something special, each in their very own space.

And so it is today, as we each go about life.

All on a journey that is particularly our own.

We want so much more of what is promised.

Often feel empty, disillusioned, quietly we moan.

Yet Bethlehem shows us God has no barriers,

no blockages, as he visit us here on earth.

For Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph,

The shepherds and Wiseman all saw Jesus’s birth.

So God can reveal himself to each one of us

and come quietly knocking at our door.

Or be to our world shattering, challenging,

so profound, shake us to the very core.

Bethlehem tells us every participant had to leave

Their own peaceful life, and inhibitions far behind.

As each shown baby Jesus was something extraordinary,

something special, absolutely one of a kind.

It is today no different. Amazing, that this Jesus,

who has profoundly changed the world we live in

Yet so many are totally ignorant of that baby

born so inconspicuously behind Bethlehem Inn.

Not acceptable politically, religiously,

or to the comfortably ensconced in their own lives.

Yet deriding Herod, the Priests, Inn Keeper,

or those oblivious children, husbands and wives.

So let’s not be surprised when this world again,

tries to ignore that momentous event.

For Bethlehem shows through each individual

this truly amazing message was sent.

Our world once again is silent. Ignoring who he was.

Or often with very open disdain.

Yet we will join together, just like those angels.

And shout to all creation, our joyous acclaim.