"I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floa..."
- Carew Papritz
"Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all."
- Richelle E. Goodrich
"Mary and Josephhuddle snugly together.They cradle God's son."
"Wise men come to seea child of greater wisdomand honor divine."
"Sheep and goats and cowsgather 'round a manger bedto awe at a babe."
"Born on straw at nightunder low stable rafters,Baby Jesus cried."