"Are you all ready for Christmas?"

[Kristin Haakenson]

The small ark! Oh, the image of this! Thank you for reading it, Jody - that warms my heart to hear you.

[Laurie Klein]

This, O this, especially:

"A stone space quarried like the heart of a

small ark, opening just enough

to cradle the straw."

A gift to me this joyous morn, my friend. Thank you!

[Jody L. Collins]

Thank you, Laurie. Poems make the best gifts...

[Deborah T. Hewitt]

Jody, this is so good.

Love your poem and raw, yet beautiful, descriptive words of our Savior's birth.

God Bless you and your family!

Merry Christmas! Love, deb ox

[Cheryl Grey Bostrom]

Thanks for readying me, Jody. Christ's blessings to you and yours.

[Jody L. Collins]

And to you, Cheryl!