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A Christmas Gift From Heaven December 18, 2005

Tomorrow is Hannah’s birthday. Here is a poem I wrote when see was born:

Our snow-enshrouded home was nestled
neath God’s providential care
Anticipating the arrival
of a special package there.

Then as if dispatched from heaven
borne on angel-wings
A parcel came to rest among
our festive fashionings

What a priceless little bundle
of life and dreams and love
Came into our home last Christmas
like a present from above.

Yuletide night my eyes were misty
if I must tell the truth
For the Christmas gift from heaven
of our precious Hannah Ruth.

Kenneth L. Pierpont
December 1989

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1. KenPierpont.com » Happy 17th Birthday Hannah - December 18, 2006

[...] Hannah was born at home on December 19th, 1989 at 6:54 a.m. I wrote out the birth certificate by hand at the kitchen table that morning. She has been such a delight to me since I first held her beside the Christmas tree that Christmas night. My heart was so happy when she was born I was inspired to write a poem about it. [...]