I didn't do a sermon as such but I did this.
The scene in the stable has been drawn again again and no words of mine are ever going to improve on them.....so instead I want to share with you a short poem by UA Fanthorpe....as she pictures the events in the stable and all the other animals were trying to get in on the act..
Cat in the Manger by UA Fanthorpe.
In the story I’m not there
Ox and ass, arranged at prayer
But me? No where
Anti cat evangelists
How on earth could you have missed
Such an obvious and able
Occupant of any stable?
Who excluded mouse and rat?
The harmless necessary cat
Who snuggled in with the holy pair?
Me. And my purr.
Matthew , Mark and Luke and John
Who got it wrong
Who left out the cat
Remember that
Wherever He went in this great affair
I was there!
Of course he was....and of course the dog....how could the cat and dog have been left out of this scene?
The sheep dog
After the bright lights
And the talking bird
And the singing
And the sky filled up wi wings
And then the silence
Our lads sez
We’d better go then
Stay Shep. Good dog , stay
So I stayed wi t sheep
It sounded grand what they’d seen
Camels and Kings and such
Wi presents...human kind
Not the sort you can eat
And a baby. Presents were for him
Our lads took him a lamb.
Pity they didn’t tek me along too
I’m good wi sheep
And the baby might have liked a dog
After all that myrrh and such.
Please read the poem with a northern accent!
I have another mass later.....thats my excuse for publishing the poem again!
A blessed Christmas to you all
3 comments:
Thankyou Jean, and to you.
May the new year bring you peace and comfort and such joy as may be found in small things.
Bless you both.
And the dinosaur too ... One of our Toddler Group children left a dinosaur in the Christmas Crib. "Did they have dinosaurs in the stable?" quipped one of our church members. Well of course, in one sense they did. The whole of creation drawn to that pinpoint where Time and Space collapsed, and the Word was 'YES'.
Thank you for that Kevin...of course there was a place in the stable for a dinosaur. Maybe not Tryrannasaurus Rex though.
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