Planning for our Carol Service is well in hand and it's going to be great. One tricky bit is my desire that we find a poem that gives a Joseph perspective on the annunciation (and beyond) - perhaps based on the dream he had in which he was told not to divorce Mary. A trawl of my poem books and the web has turned up nothing suitable, and the general response from the networks into which my co-planner has links is 'hmm, that's an interesting idea' (or words to that effect).
I'm not asking people to write something for us, I am just wondering it anyone knows of anything already published that we could use? We don't want twee and we don't want too heavy... so it's a simple task...
If you can help please leave a comment.
Thank you.
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There's a couple in Hay & Stardust and Joseph's diary in Cloth for Cradle?
Or for a slightly different approach, you could try "Joseph's Song" by Michael Card. It is a lovely song, or it might even stand being read as a poem.
I have Cloth for the Cradle (Wild Goose Publication). There is a "diaries of Joseph and Theodore". More of a sketch than a poem.
Or someone else was telling me about Nick Fawcet's carol service mediations (not sure of title).
The above or Nick Fawcett ' No Ordinary Man 1 and 2 - 2 has Joseph reflecting on his dream No 7 page 37
Yes Nick Fawcett: No Ordinary Man 1&2
2 has Joseph reflecting on his dream p.37
(sorry if this is a duplicate post - first one doesn't seem to have gone through|)
Thank you!
I have Nick Fawcett's books - his are a bit long for what we want
I am sure we can readily find 'Cloth for the Cradle' being where we are...
Is the Michael Card from 'The Promise' (or is it 'The Virgin'? A musical thing from the last 1980s early 1990s)? If so I have the cassette at home somewhere! I knew I kept all those old tapes for a reason....