An Angel
Remembers 25 Voices of Christmas
On Christmas Day
I wish you Merry Christmas and God’s many blessings.
An Angel
Remembers 25 Voices of Christmas is a collection of short stories I wrote for
my daughter for Christmas. Each story takes 10-15 minutes to read. I wrote it
as a way to share the story of Christmas and make it more alive for her without
changing the story. I wrote them as an advent collection intending them to be
read one each day during the month of December leading up to Christmas.
Each story is
the account of the events leading to the birth of Christ as told by someone we
either know was there, because they are mentioned in the Biblical account or
someone we can guess was there.
Last year I
decided to self e-publish my book.
It is
available at the following bookseller websites:
iTunes Store,
Barns And Nobel, Sony Kobo, Disel, Page Foundry and Baker-Taylor's Bilo.
It is also
available at Smashwords.com for ALL ereaders and even as a downloadable PDF for
the computer.
This is the
poem that started it all. An Angel is on its appointed rounds in current day and
finds a home that is not celebrating the joyous great gift God gave mankind
many years ago. This Angel decides to remind the people in the home of God’s
greatest gift of love, His one and only son, God in human form, Jesus Christ.
THE ANGEL’S GIFT
The house
was dark. There was no Christmas cheer on this night of nights. No Christmas
dreams filled little heads as they slept tight.
An angel
of God saw this lonely sight as she was traveling round about. The angel
remembered the Christ child’s birth and she wanted all to remember His worth.
She found no stockings hung with care, no garland and lace or nativity set
there. What could she do to show them the joy in remembering Christ’s birth in
the simplest ways? She knew then she must remind them of the gifts God had
given.
So off
she went to the forest to find reminders to bring to their home. She called out
to all living things be it bear, bird, brier or tree to bring things special to
remember God by.
Beaver
brought ice cycles, reminders of Christ’s tears with frozen rainbows of God’s
promise inside.
Bear
brought a garland of fruit a symbol of the sweetness of God’s love.
The
squirrels gave nuts the hidden treasure of God’s word. Sometimes hard to open.
Sparrow
found holly berries that looked like drops of Jesus’ bloodshed for man.
Mold
brought a unbroken circlet of fine gold, symbol of eternity in heaven with God.
A noble
fir tree said, “Take me. Christ died on a tree and lived evermore just like I
am evergreen.”
The angel
took all these gifts and decorated the tree. Then when she was done she took a
star from the heaven and set it on top to remind of the Wisemen’s travel.
Wisemen still seek Jesus today.
As she
was entering the house God saw the gifts and added His own. Snow, pure and
white, to show the purity of His love for all mankind.
May you
enjoy all the gifts that God has given you this day and always.
©Copyrighted Material By Carolyn
Hoagland 1995 Revised July 2010
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