When I was 7 we moved to Hampton..
must have been a mid fall move, perhaps even
mid year..
but I remember being Mary that year in Iowa Falls..
I had a blue robe on, soft..very soft, but it smelled like soap..
clean and fresh..
funny how you remember the smells..
and the program was in the basement of the Episcopal Church
in Iowa Falls..
Fresh evergreen smells..candles burning...
I was so proud to be Mary..I had a dress on, with tights on, warm warm tights..and
my little red buckle shoes..
my feet were SO wide that my shoes had to be specially ordered, and they came in the
softest red...bling for a 7 year old at the time..
The soft blue robe draped up over my head like you think of Mary..
softly covered in blue..
and under the robe in the folds..
I carried a little doll..
soft soft plastic with a molded head..
and in the course of the play,
after walking so proudly past all the congregation..
the narrator said..
And Mary brought forth a son..
from the folds of that soft blue robe..
came the little soft molded doll, and I just remember the cuddly time of having Jesus
so close..
and being so proud..
And even now..
I'm still proud to have Jesus in my life..
....only he holds me close at times now..
and he still smells so clean..
:)
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