Nativity -- Mary

Nativity – Mary
Larry Linville

My decisions were all made for me
as a woman I was never free
to even decide whom I would marry
and I want to say this is scary.

Joseph to whom I had been engaged
was much older when it was arranged
and I was just a shy teen-aged girl
which set my life in a great big whirl.

Another big choice was made for me
and all I could do was just agree
to bear a child whose father was God
such a request was extremely odd.

My long journey left me sore and weak
and I rested in a shed so bleak.
Then I was honored to give a birth
to a boy who would bring joy to earth.

Shepherds came to the manger to pray
and tell me what the angels did say.
I treasured all these things in my heart
as I watched them all turn and depart.

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