Oh, did you know?

Oh, Mary, did you know that you carried within you

a gift that would turn the world upside down?

Oh, Mary, did you know when there was no room

that your son would throw open the doors

and receive those others turned away?

Oh, Joseph, did you know when you heard

the angel speak that you would become a refugee?

Oh, Joseph, did you know that your heart

would pound with fear when you heard

of Herod’s anger?

Oh, Jesus, did you know when you did not

grasp at the privileges of divinity humbling

yourself to be one of us that we would turn you away?

Oh, Jesus, did you know that our hearts would

harden yet again as we turn your people away?

Oh, Mary, help us to bear within us the gift that

will turn the world right side up.

Oh, Joseph, help us to open our hearts

to let the refugees, the homeless, the children in.

Oh, Jesus, help us to humble ourselves,

releasing our hold on what we call ours.

Oh, holy Jesus, come among us now.