I wonder... what if Christmas would not have been?
If Mary doubted, faltered, and didn't agree
To the message of the angel, unforseen
By mortals --- she, who knew no man, would be
The mother of the Messiah long foretold?
But, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord",
She said, accepting all that was to unfold
"Be it done to me, according to thy word!"
It is written, "Yahweh calls by name
Long before we are formed in our mother's womb."
Still, He needs her fiat just the same.
For a woman may will her womb to be a tomb
Or a tabernacle of life awaiting morn!
Echoing the first Christmas when Christ was born!
Christmas 1993
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