Your Stories, Lord

Yesterday, Lord, we remembered Your birth

With get togethers, food and gifts

And in the midst of it all

Was the re-enactment of Your coming

A telling in detail the story of Your birth

Did the Sunday school pageant two weeks ago

Tell the story as clearly?

How often do we hear the stories of You

Told clearly?

Or are they read aloud once

With the expectation they'll be caught

Just like that

With no interaction 

With the telling of the story

We have the stained glass windows

That show scenes from Your story

We have the church calendar

That moves us through 

Christmas and Easter each year

But have we become too sophisticated

For our own good?

Do we rely too much on reading

To facilitate the passing on of our stories

Without taking the time to tell them

Embrace them and walk our way through them?