BOY LIKE ME, MAN LIKE YOU

Snippet

This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild,
Had Mary been filled with reason
There'd have been no room for the child.  

After Annunciation Madeleine L'Engle

Scripture

She gave birth to her first-born son. She dressed him in baby clothes and laid him on a bed of hay,because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2:7

Song

Boy Like Me / Man Like You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s6_C1bhuo0

Rich Mullins and Beaker

You was a baby like I was once
You was cryin' in the early mornin'
You was born in a stable Lord
Reid Memorial is where I was born
They wrapped You in swaddling clothes
Me they dressed in baby blue

But I was twelve years old in the meeting house
Listening to the old men pray
And I was tryin' hard to figure out
What it was that they was tryin' to say
There You were in the temple
They said You weren't old enough
To know the things You knew

Well, did You grow up hungry?
Did You grow up fast?
Did the little girls giggle when You walked past?
Did You wonder what it was that made them laugh?
And did they tell You stories 'bout the saints of old?
Stories about their faith?
They say stories like that make a boy grow bold
Stories like that make a man walk straight

And You was a boy like I was once
But was You a boy like me
Well, I grew up around Indiana
You grew up around Galilee
And if I ever really do grow up
Lord I want to grow up and be just like You

Well, did You wrestle with a dog and lick his nose?
Did You play beneath the spray of a water hose?
Did You ever make angels in the winter snow?
And did they tell You stories 'bout the saints of old?
Stories about their faith?
They say stories like that make a boy grow bold
Stories like that make a man walk straight

Did You ever get scared playing hide and seek?
Did You try not to cry when You scraped Your knee?
Did You ever skip a rock across a quiet creek?
And did they tell You stories 'bout the saints of old?
Stories about their faith?
They say stories like that make a boy grow bold
Stories like that make a man walk straight

And I really may just grow up and be like You someday

Sentence Prayer

Jesus, help me to see as you were, 

so I may see me   as I am.

Help, me to see a normal child; that played,

loved and got upset.

So I may see a Savior that Sympathizes 

with a struggling sinner.

Open my eyes, Holy Spirit to see footprints in the water

 and a empty pallet

So I May see a Holy God, 

to know better the destruction of sin.

Amen.