As history and ordinary sinners
Began to spread the news
Of a rabbi who would become
The most influential man of all time,
An evil king was trapped in his bedroom
With a vengeful woman and a terrifying question…

After long dusty miles,
The virgin catches her breath.
Exhausted, she smiles,
And leans back on Joseph’s chest.
She conceived, she labored,
She held her Son at her breast,
Then laid him in a manger,
Swaddled, to give him some rest…

Like a backward-aging bride,
You're beautiful tonight,
But in decades from today,
You'll be more lovely in my sight…