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The disparage of life, that never ends
There's always strife, why does it begin?
Will there ever be any peace
In this life, will I ever see?

Is it satan boring a hole
in the very wall of my soul
Carving, chipping, digging away
Pressing your mind, why does it stay?




Deliverance is needed now to come
Why to others and not to some.
My mind intensely wanting out
of all the struggle and the doubt.

My shame has overcome
Why should I be out done.
I just remembered another
The suffering of a mother.




She watched her son demeaned
And couldn't do a thing.
She cried I'm sure hot tears
That drowned her in her fears.

She knew what was gonna be
No hope could she ever see.
Her baby was gonna die
After living a spotless life.




He prayed for souls of men
While they wallowed in sin.
His life was worthless to them
Their thoughts were turned in.

She followed the deafening crowd
She wept and cried aloud.
My baby is being martyred for us
A deadly price, but I know He must.





He was only mine for a short time
To nuture and love while  he was mine.
He made my life happy and complete
Now I watch the blood drip from His feet.

A greater man there will never be
The one that God shared with me.
He was a loving but dreamer of a lad
Who taught me lessons of what I really had.




Now He must go to make things anew
Prepare a home for me and you.
The GREATEST GIFT for all mankind,
Used to be my baby divine.


So why, I am a mother too
Finding life so difficult and blue.
Being Mary, I could never swing
She played a role that could only bring...





Sorrow, sadness, sacrifice too
She did more than I could ever do.
So why do I disparage in life's daily woes,
Mary was his mother, and Mary knows.


Shirley Barr
December 10, 2005
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Luke 2: 16 ~ 19
And they came with haste, and found Mary,
and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child.  And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.  But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
MUSIC: 'MARY DID YOU KNOW'
COURTESY OF GODS GOSPEL CHRISTMAS MIDIS
WHY NOT, IF MARY COULD?