These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

The Christmas Corner

The Christmas Corner, crafting room
of needlepoint and lights.
This gentle place it makes to bloom
ideas 'mid the sights.

The Christmas Corner, smallish place
to think, to craft, to be.
What will the moments of this grace
bring forth for all to see?

Some dream of hills, of forest glen,
of meadows, and their streams,
but I am helped by way back when
the child's Joy wrote by reams.

The Christmas Corner calls to me
when life has been a mess.
The gentle lights, the carols be
environment of rest.

The Christmas Corner's other names
to those, whose restful peace
restores their hearts as Life it tames
to give their hope release.

In Christmas, there's identity
with One, Whose birth we sing.
Salvation, chest from stone, it frees
and gives the spirit wings.

The Christmas Corner, day by day
reminds of Heaven's Bliss.
The hopeful heart will always say,
"He made us just for this."

by Jay O’Toole
on February 19th, 2025