It's Christmas Eve...

and all is well in our household, and my prayers for my friends and loved ones are that the babe in the manger who grew to be the Son of Man and then Savior to the world is in your heart and minds tonight and that he will bless your sleep and your Christmas day tomorrow.

I leave this poem with you...

A PRAYER FOR CHRISTMAS EVE

On this, the evening of Thy birth,
Waits with bated breath the whole wide earth.
We long to hear the angels sing
Of the coming of our Lord the King.
Not yet for Him the thorny crown;
Tonight the Son of Man comes down
To a world that kneels in boundless joy
With Mary, who aches to hold her Boy.
There was no room within the inn,
But in our hearts is space for Him.
Tonight there comes the Prince of Peace,
Who from death doth bring surcease.
Church bells now begin to knell;
Born the Babe, Emmanuel.
To Him our voices now we raise;
With angels sing our song of praise.
Our simple hymn is “Alleluia!”
We greet the birth of our Messiah.
Together we join the sing Him laud,
Born this morn the Son of God.

--Author Unknown