Get Me Through December - Alison Krauss & Natalie MacMaster.

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"Mommy, is Jesus' last name Christ?"
Mommy has a Phd in linguistics
And wants to say
That Christ is an anglicized version
Of the Greek word Xristos,
Which was borrowed from the Egyptians
Who had gotten it from Sumeria,
And that the Ancient Hindu word Krishna
Carries the same name
And the very same meaning!

Mommy longs to explain the phrases:
Doxology, logos, hoc est meus corpus,
Anointed one!
She longs to impart
Something gloriously divine!

But should Mommy just say,,
"Yes, Dear, Christ is Jesus' last name,"
Or should Mommy tell her child
That the Life that he, himself, carries on the inside,
Even as a child, (especially as a child!)
Is brighter, too, than a thousand suns,
And that the kingdom of kindness and insight
Dwelling within everyone who lives and loves,
Is the very anointed kingdom of god
In any language, in any time

That Life and Love and Peace and Joy are let to reign.
Mommy just smiles, and stops what she's doing
To give her child a big hug
And says, "I don't know, Love,
What do you think?"

-Jenn