Opened boxes, ribbons, cards and crinkled wrappings,

Christmas lights and candles, the tree in its trappings.

Some cool gifts, some funny, we, grateful receivers,

Meaningful gifts, heartfelt, joys of being givers.

Away in a manger. What?! No room for a bed?!?!

Plunged into the darkness, the spiritually dead.

A very pregnant gal, not one a bed-giver???

A handful of shepherds, the Savior’s receivers.

Seth