Billboards

Luke 2:11-12

Keep well to the right

Of the oncoming car

Get your close shaves

From the half pound jar

Burma-Shave

I'm just a little young to remember those signs,

though every once in a while

someone revives the idea along the road side 

and breaks the travel monotony

for a mile or so.

I think God actually had the original idea.

The prophesies are all over the Old Testament.

One after another mankind passed them,

along the miles - stretching to centuries - of history.

And then the time came:

Virgin is pregnant

Journey to Bethlehem town

Babe in a stable

Wise men lay their treasures down

Cold lonely night

Shepherds with sheep

Singing angels

Disturb their sleep

Just in case 

you missed all those

Baby wrapped 

in swaddling clothes

Tiny fingers, tiny toes

Precious little bitty thing

Came from heaven down to earth

Son of God, the Lord and King

Jesus Christ