Shepherds and women unheeded
Shepherds and women unheeded
were God’s extraordinary choice
to be first to carry both Birth news,
and to give Resurrection its voice.
Yes! Uplifting the least and the lowly
is God’s preferential choice
as he yearns to see transcendent justice
that gives to the humble a voice.
So, with thanks for the women and shepherds
to whom God entrusted those deeds
of proclaiming Christ’s great revelations:
let us passionately follow their leads.
OR - Maybe an alternative third verse …
(Yet the powerful, the great and the wealthy
All too often would drown out such pleas
By crushing God’s longing for justice
through lust, venality, greed.)