Once in royal David’s city — Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her Baby — In a manger for His bed.
Mary was that mother mild — Jesus Christ her little Child.

He came down to earth from Heaven — Who is God and Lord of all,
And His shelter was a stable — And His cradle was a stall;
With the poor and mean, and lowly — Lived on earth our Savior holy.

And our eyes at last shall see Him —Through His own redeeming love;
For that Child so dear and gentle — Is our Lord in Heaven above,
And He leads His children on — To the place where He has gone.

                            -Cecil Francis Alexander, 1848

“Christ came into this world as God’s Ambassador, sent from Heaven to tell us of God’s love.”            -Billy Graham-

“So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.”
                                (Luke 2:16-20) NIV

“May the Christmas morning make us happy to be Thy children, and the Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven.”
                            -Robert Louis Stevenson-