As Silent Nights Go

As Silent Nights Go
By Pastor Lee Hemen
December 19, 2020

As silent nights go, it was nothing new;
Only noted by a chosen few.
The evening breeze blew soft that night,
And stars twinkled in heavenly delight.
    
Shepherds watched their flocks in fields,
Covered themselves from the cold to shield.
While in a little town in a manger lay,
A small baby boy tucked in soft brown hay.

Near his crude crib his father knelt,
His young mother in wonder felt;
Her son so tiny chosen to be,
The one who’d come to set captives free.

Back in the fields angels sing,
Hallelujahs to the Godly king!
Born that day in the tiny town,
A baby wears a heavenly crown.

The shepherds rush to the manger scene,
To tell the parents of what they’d seen.
The mother wonders at what it meant,
About her son that God has sent.

How could it be that one so small,
Born in a simple manger stall,
Could be the savior of all mankind
That even wise men would seek to find?

And yet the carols we still sing,
Of the baby born a heavenly king.
To redeem us one and all,
And rescue us from our sinful fall.

As silent nights go, it was nothing new,
Only noted by a chosen few.
The evening breeze blew soft that night,
And stars twinkled in heavenly delight.
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