Twas the Night Before Jesus Came

'Twas the night before Jesus and all through Bethlehem town

Not a room could be rented ,not a vacancy could be found.

The rooms were all filled with parties and fermented drink

In hopes they could drown all their troubles in this stink.

But the animals all knew what tomorrow would bring

At the breaking of dawn there would be a great King

The stables were restless for the donkeys could sense

tonight was so special as they tugged at their fence.

The birds of the air lay down in their nest

high above a small stable where Jesus would soon rest.

The owls didn't ask "who" tonight ,they only listened to hear

Of the coming Messiah who's birth was so near.

The mice were all busy cleaning the trash from the hay

that was to be placed in the manger for the Christ child to lay.

The camels crouched quietly with long necks toward the street

and watched for the donkey and movement of a mans feet.

A star now lit up the sky over the Bethlehem town

As the angels of God descended to the ground.

The form of a man leading a donkey with a rider

could be seen down the street as the dark now grew lighter.

One by one the weary man visited each and every Inn

to be told they were all filled up again and again.

So he walked to the stable and interred the door

not like the rich of the world but as the lowly and poor.

The animals all knew what was to happen this night

a savior would be born ,with God's power and great might.

'Twas the night before Jesus and all through the land

salvation was coming ,God's son would save man.

by Terry L. Richardson

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