Christmas is our most important holiday, and its literature is correspondingly rich. Yet until now no adequate bundle of Christmas treasures in poetry and prose has found its way onto the Internet for Winter, Christmas, the birth of Christ, Santa Claus, and so much more..Children are Part and Parcel of Christmas
I have many wonderful Christmas memories, gathered as the years rolled by… Perhaps the loveliest is the one of the second and last “earth” Christmas of Robin, our little angel. I wanted so desperately to see her enjoy, understand and really catch the spirit of Christmas, and I hoped that our carefully chosen little gifts would help and please her. You know, she looked just as though she belonged on top of a beautiful, glimmering Christmas tree. Her nurse used to call her “angel,” and that Christmas day she really looked the part.
Robin was one of the greatest Christmas gifts of my life; she brought me into suffering and taught me to walk by faith with Christ through the deep waters to a new and clearer understanding of life. Through her I learned where abundant life is really to be-in the service of others through the Christ who lived, died and rose for all of us.
I remember the indescribable feeling of happiness as I watched Robin delightedly pound the little red piano that still sits on my window-sill … and I remember hearing a song in my heart…
You little blue-eyed angel, Heaven has sent you to me, you little blue-eyed angel, you belong on a Christmas tree.
Hair that is gold has my precious one, that little smile is warm as the sun you little blue-eyed angel, you belong on a Christmas tree. What a blessed Christmas experience that was! My soul grew much in understanding that day.
Then, the next Christmas, as we trimmed the tree for Cheryl, Linda, Dusty and our two “newest Rogerses,” Sandy and Dodie, I picked up a little Christmas-tree angel, and inwardly saw little Robin’s face. As I placed it on top of the tree, I suddenly knew that little Robin was very, very happy now and having a Christmas with the One who made it possible! Sandy and Dodie were ecstatic over the tree and their gifts, and we all felt warmly grateful to God for the two charming little strangers He had sent to take the place of our “angel unaware” ….
There was the usual Christmas turkey with my favorite Texas corn-bread dressing, marshmallow-topped sweet potatoes, “ambrosia,” and fruit cake-the Christmas dinner of my childhood. “Daddy Roy” gifted me with an electric organ on Christmas Eve, and its soothing notes proved blessed therapy to a heart remembering a little blonde head missing around the tree. It seemed the other children “outdid themselves” to help make this Christmas happy for “Mom”-because they knew I needed help…
Children are “part and parcel” of Christmas… Think how wonderful it would be if childless couples would “borrow” some orphans for Christmas!
