This collection of poems and songs revolves around the stable on Christmas Night. The ordinary, commonplace things participated, each in its own way, in the miraculous birth, as did the everyday people who also came to worship – and which of us might not see himself among them? The poems were found in a book shop in Germany in 1935, by someone in our community. Their unpretentious, genuine approach to that Night of nights brought an immediate response, and the little book took its place in our common Christmas experience. In the English translation of them, Marlys Swinger found the impetus she had been hoping for to help her bring into reality a Christmas cantata for our children to sing.
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This collection of poems and songs revolves around the stable on Christmas Night. The ordinary, commonplace things participated, each in its own way, in the miraculous birth, as did the everyday people who also came to worship – and which of us might not see himself among them? The poems were found in a book shop in Germany in 1935, by someone in our community. Their unpretentious, genuine approach to that Night of nights brought an immediate response, and the little book took its place in our common Christmas experience. In the English translation of them, Marlys Swinger found the impetus she had been hoping for to help her bring into reality a Christmas cantata for our children to sing.