ADVENT IS HERE! Day 13 IF ONLY

I wish I’d known what I know now,


I could have known it then.


For I was there when he was born,


I lived in Bethlehem.

I’d heard of an unmarried girl,

Arriving nine months gone,

And how there was no room for her,

To have her little one.

I’d heard she had a little boy,

And laid it in a trough.

I wish now that I’d offered help,

I’d heard they weren’t well off.

But like so many in that town,

I kept myself away,

Except to moan about the noise

When shepherds came one day.

If only I had realised

Who lay there in that shed,

I would have opened up my home

And given him my bed.

HPW ©

God bless you all,
Major Howard Webber (retired)
Bournemouth, England