"Twas The Night Before Christmas"

A very old post I just came across...

So, my mom asked me to "re-write" Twas the Night Before Christmas so that her Discovery Club girls could learn it and recite it for their Christmas program.... sounds easy! so I thought.... it was fun, it was challenging.... and then a bit discouraging when my own daughter asked me if I had googled it!!!! I was highly insulted!!! ha ha!!! There is no limit to what we can google these days!!! However..... because I didn't want to know how much better everyone else's versions were.... I can honestly say... " I didn't google a darn thing!" Maybe I should have.... I don't know!!! But here it is!

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND ALL THROUGH THE LAND,

NOTHING WAS STIRRING.... NOT EVEN THE SAND!

THE STALLS WERE ALL SWEPT AND THE ROPES HUNG WITH CARE,

BUT NONE COULD IMAGINE WHAT WOULD SOON HAPPEN THERE.

THE CAMELS WERE NESTLED ALL SNUG IN THE HAY,

WHILE A STAR SHONE SO BRIGHT, IT LOOKED LIKE THE DAY!

THE INNKEEPER'S WIFE GOT READY FOR BED , AND HE WAS SO GLAD

TO JUST REST HIS HEAD

WHEN A KNOCK AT THEIR DOOR CAUSED SUCH A CLATTER,

THEY LEAPT FROM THEIR LOFT TO SEE WHAT WAS

THE MATTER!

THEY OPENED THE INN DOOR AND PEERED OUT TO THE STABLE;

AND SHOOK THEIR HEADS SADLY AND SAID,

"WE ARE NOT ABLE!"

THE MOON SEEMED SO BRIGHT THEY TOOK ANOTHER GLANCE,

TO SEE WHAT IT WAS THAT BROUGHT THEM HERE BY CHANCE!

BUT WHAT TO THEIR WONDERING EYES DID THEY SEE,

JUST A MAN AND HIS WIFE.... SOON TO BE THREE!!

ON A DONKEY MARY RODE AND TO ME SHE DID SMILE,

AS JOSEPH, HER HUSBAND ASKED TO STAY AWHILE.

I SHOOK MY HEAD SADLY AND SAID "WE'VE NO ROOM IN THE INN"

THEY GAVE ME A NOD... AND IT HIT ME THEN!!!!!!

THE STABLE WAS CLEAN, I HAD WORKED TILL IT SHONE,

HOW COULD I KNOW THIS WOULD BE HIS FIRST THRONE?

THE SKY THAT WAS LIT BY THE MOON SO I THOUGHT,

WAS BETHLEHEM'S STAR... AND THE WISE MEN IT BROUGHT!

THEY KNELT AND THEY BOWED AND THEIR VOICES DID SING,

AS THE GIFTS THEY HAD BROUGHT WERE BESTOWED

ON THE KING!!!!

THE SHEPHERDS ARRIVED AND THE ANGELS AS WELL,

"GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST" WAS THE SONG THEY DID TELL!

HE WAS SWADDLED IN CLOTHS AND THEIR HEARTS LEPT WITH JOY

AND THEY LEFT TO TELL OTHERS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL BOY!

A BABE IN A MANGER SURLEY DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT....

BUT HE HAD GIVEN US CHRISTMAS ON A COLD WINTER'S NIGHT!!!!

thank you, Jesus. You are the best Gift of all!!!! I love You!!!!

Merry Christmas 2013!