We did not know

“He was the most balanced and perhaps the most beloved being ever to enter the society of Men. Though born amid most disgusting surroundings, the member of a modest working family, He bore Himself always with great dignity and assurance.” A Shepherd Looks at Ps. 23 P 9

“Born amid most disgusting surroundings.” Born in a barn, where animal feces and urine and other bodily emissions fill the air and ground. Mary went into labor, in one of the most unsanitary surroundings imaginable. The Creator God, reduced to a helpless babe, born in a barn? No one said whether the barn was clean or not, clean as far as barns go.

You the Creator God reduced to creation.
You, Creator God reduced to cells too small to be seen.
You, Creator God, growing cell by cell, in the womb of a little girl.
Growing in the womb of the lowest of the low. (female> peasant female)
You, accustomed to living in the vast space of the universe, lived within the tiny confines of the virgin womb
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Even before taking your first breaths of that nauctious smelling barn, you were reviled.
As her belly swelled, full of You, Creator God;
They mocked,
They whispered,
They hated,
They gossiped,
They despised
They did not know.