Merry Christmas to you, my tiny new one.
Did you know that God also got him a son?

His name is Jesus, who humbly was born
a long time ago on a bright winter morn
in a land far away in a town near the sea,
where the pigeons cooed low and the sheep roamed free.
He came to release us from sadness and woe,
or so goes the story from long, long ago.

Merry Christmas to you, my tiny new son.
You remind me so much of that dear Holy One.

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.
Detial of The Holy Family, anonymous.