The Night before Christmas

by Merry Celeste Murray

Overview

The Night before Christmas: A Children's Christmas Poem about the Birth of Jesus might sound familiar and yet new and fresh at the same time. This poem tells the story from the Bible about the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, and uses rhythm and rhyme in ways that draw their inspiration from Clement Clark Moore's familiar telling of the Christmas Eve visit from St. Nicholas. Pairing eye-catching illustrations with the scenes in this beloved story brings to life the enduring Biblical account of Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem, the birth of the Christ Child, the announcement by the angels, the shepherds' visit to the stable, and the call to tell the story to others. The reading of this keepsake book is fast becoming a yearly family tradition in many homes on Christmas Eve: 'And just before dawn, in the stable that morn, the Messiah, the Savior, the Redeemer was born.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781973618591
Publisher:	WestBowPress
Publication date:	10/17/2011
Pages:	34
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 7.44(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Merry Celeste Murray Born-again Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Sunday school teacher, women's Bible teacher, lay counselor, ghost writer, assistant editor, and newspaper columnist. Born and raised in the South, resides in San Diego, California,

celebrating sixty-two years of marriage to husband, Ross.

Read an Excerpt

That Christmas Eve, when all our children and grandchildren
gathered at our house, I ('Grandma') surprised everybody
with a dramatic reading of the Christmas poem the Lord had
given me. My grandchildren's faces lit up with excitement
and belief as the true story of Christmas unfolded within
their young hearts and minds. They loved it!

And so it is with great joy that I share with you this poem,
the reading of which is now a family Christmas Eve tradition
at our house, and I hope at your house as well, from now on,
to the glory of God. Truly it is the greatest story ever told, as
recorded in Luke 2:1-20, about the birth of the Son of God,
Jesus Christ — God's Christmas Gift to the world - who came
down from Heaven two thousand years ago to save us from
our sins.