[Faith-talk] The gift

[Barbara Hammel]

I have a Christmas CD of Garth Brooks that has that song on it.
Barbara

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From: "Julie C. Vogt" <jcvogt at pressenter.com>
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> You know what Wesley?  There was a radio station that always played that 
> song and this year I didn't hear it on any radio station once.  It's a 
> wonderful story.
>
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>>
>>
>> THE
>> GIFT
>>
>> A poor orphan girl named Maria,
>> Was walking to market one day,
>> She stopped for to rest by the roadside, Where a bird with a broken wing
>> lay.
>> A few moments passed till she saw it,
>> For its feathers were covered with sand, But soon clean and wrapped it 
>> was
>> travelling, In the warmth of Maria's small hand.
>>
>> She happily gave her last peso,
>> On a cage made of rushes and twine,
>> She fed it lose corn from the market,
>> And watched it grow stronger with time.
>> Now the Christmas Eve service was coming, And the church shown with 
>> tinsel
>> and light, And all of the town folk brought presents, To lay by the 
>> manger
>> that night.
>>
>> There were diamonds and incense and perfume, In packages fir for a king, 
>> But
>> for one ragged bird in a small cage, Maria had nothing to bring.
>> She waited till just before midnight,
>> So no one would see her go in,
>> And crying she knelt by the manger,
>> For her gift was unworthy of Him.
>>
>> Then a voice spoke to her through the darkness, Maria what brings you to 
>> me,
>> If the bird in the cage is your offering, Open the door let me see.
>> Though she trembled she did what He asked her, And out of the cage the 
>> bird
>> flew, Soaring up into the rafters, On a wing that had healed good as new.
>>
>> Just then the midnight bells rang out,
>> And the little bird started to sing,
>> A song that no words could recapture,
>> Whose beauty was fit for a king.
>> Now Maria felt blessed just to listen,
>> To that cascade of notes sweet and long, As her offering was lifted to
>> heaven, By the very first Nightingale song.
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