Parents
We know the advent story very, very well
But there is a part of it I feel that I must tell!
Mary had a mother and a father I suppose
But how they both reacted nobody now knows!
You have taught your daughter all she ought to do
Now you find she’s pregnant, right out of the blue!
The penalty for such unwedded sex is most severe.
It could be a stoning for the one you hold so dear?
Of course you’d like to hush it up and find the guilty man
And have them swiftly married. You’d do all you can.
Naturally you’d think that her betrothed has had his way
But when you find that he has not, your anger might hold
sway!
Your daughter has betrayed your trust and had another love
And she tells you she’s conceived with the Spirit from
above!
I wouldn’t for a minute suspect she was believed
And her loving parents must have felt aggrieved!
That is when they packed her off to stay with distant kin
So their neighbours would not know the pickle she was in!
Imagine their relief when Joseph did the decent thing
And covered their embarrassment with a wedding ring.
Some may have suspected that a shotgun had been used
And religious sticklers would not have been amused.
Did this create some problems when Christ returned to
preach?
Did they use such ancient scandal in order to impeach?
Certainly they chased him from among their congregation
Leaving him to wander throughout the Hebrew nation!
But this was in the future and her parents would not know
As they, in the background, recovered from this blow.
They had done their loving best for Mary as she grew
And still in her predicament did all that they could do.
Lord, let us as parents surrender to your will
But still protect our children from every form of ill.
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