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The Christmas story often highlights the journey of Mary, and her story is a great one to focus on. The Magnificat, or Mary's song is a long-time favorite of mine. But Joseph often gets ignored and even treated poorly in many contemporary tellings of the Christmas story, and I wanted to take some time to tell the story more from his perspective-- at least the way I read it in the text. I read his influence on the compassionate, passionate life of Jesus to be very profound as well as Mary's.

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words and music by wade baynham

Hard traveling with a pregnant wife
To pay taxes to a brutal invader
The baby wasn't even mine
I wonder how I could cover the crime

That dream, that dream where the angel
That angel called Gabriel
Told me that I shouldn't worry
I should marry her straight away

Raise this boy as my own
God's son come to save us all
To deliver us from the cruelty and slavery
The shame that we all know so well

He said the Light of the World had come to me
The Light of the World had come to us all
In the strangest of ways, in the poorest of places
To the lowest of people
God this is so strange and humbling
And I am so amazed

So finally we came to an inn
They just turned us away
And the cave they shared with their animals
Was the best place anyone would give

We sweated and cried and prayed through the birth
But in the end, there he was
So we wrapped him in what little cloth we had
And laid him in a manger for the night

' Because the Light of the World had come to us
The Light of the World had come to us all
In the strangest of ways, in the poorest of places
To the lowest of people
God this is so strange and humbling
And I am so amazed

As the angel said, we called him Jesus
And just when it couldn't get any darker
Shepherds came and told us of a great light
An enormous choir of angels

God's messengers telling us of this little boy
Of God come to be one of us
So they came to share in our wonder
They came to share in our joy

That the Light of the World had come to Earth
The Light of the World had come to us all
In the strangest of ways, in the poorest of places
To the lowest of people
God this is so strange and humbling
And I am so amazed

The Light of the World had come to me
The Light of the World had come to us all
In the strangest of ways, in the poorest of places
To the lowest of people
God this is so strange and humbling
And I am so amazed

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from God With Us- A Celebration of Advent, released November 3, 2019

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