Put the Phone Down Joseph

Put the phone down Joseph, infant Jesus crawls your floor.

Put the phone down Joseph, incarnation don’t ignore.

Put the phone down Joseph, fight against distracted worry.

Put the phone down Joseph, time is lost in fear and hurry.

Put the phone down Joseph, stop scrolling endless news.

Put the phone down Joseph, Rome is cruel to guiltless Jews.

Put the phone down Joseph, sorrows rise of Caesar’s reign.

Put the phone down Joseph, Pharisees betray again.

Put the phone down Joseph, do not try to get away.

Put the phone down Joseph, rest your heart and hear it pray.

Put the phone down Joseph, news of this world will keep.

Put the phone down Joseph, rock your baby Son to sleep.

Put the phone down Joseph, though you carry such great weight.

Put the phone down Joseph, this child is your true mandate.

Put the phone down Joseph, grow your heart and make His glad.

Put the phone down Joseph, your son needs a present dad.

The featured image is courtesy of Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash.

Adam R. Nettesheim

Adam Nettesheim is Director of Fellowship for The Cultivating Project, and a columnist for Cultivating magazine. Through writing and illustrating, Adam seeks to pull on the golden thread that leads us Homeward. Adam is a ‘Multi-Media Specialist’ by day at a municipality in Colorado but his most important (and favorite) work is husband to his wife Sarah and father to his 3 children. His writing (and a few other things) can be found at https://adamrnettesheim.com/.