Candle lighting Advent 3....animals

Hello I am one of the animals who were at that first Christmas

You maybe surprised….but we can talk

Are you looking forward to Christmas?
For all the visitors, some expected and some unexpected?
Are you looking forward to being surprised by a person or two?

I can you tell you, at that first Christmas we were surprised…
Here we were thinking we were all comfortable….
Sitting in what we thought was OUR stable,
preparing to rest
When our quiet night was interrupted by some unexpected guests!!!
These were guests who weren’t even supposed to be in OUR stable’
A stable is no place for humans to sleep, its for animals!!!
But that innkeeper….
Shared some of our space with a young man and young woman

And boy did they mess things up
They disturbed our sleep,
They moved things around
They interrupted what we thought was a peaceful and organised life

You see not long after they arrived, a baby was born
Do you know how much noise babies make?
Also they used our feeding bucket for His bed
But it didn’t stop there
Other people came visiting, looking for this baby!!!
There were some smelly shepherds
Some characters from a foreign country with gifts
And a lot of angels
And there was this huge star lighting up the place

Everyone was happy
They were singing

And you know what?
Their joy rubbed off on us
Because we soon discovered that we were experiencing something special
God was born in our stable
We were proud

So we told everyone
And he was bringing hope and peace to the world as you discovered last week
But not only this he brought joy to us
And he brings true and long lasting joy to everyone
So with the candles of hope and peace
Lets light the candle of joy

Because as we discovered when God enters our space we discover true joy no matter how inconvienent, it may be at the time