The Christmas Child

The Christmas Child is a a short sweet, yet sad, Christmas story about forgiveness, but especially about loving others for who they are and not for who we want them to be. Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith, an English writer of children's books.

Excerpts:

Along some parts of the coast in South Wales the mountains rise abruptly from the shore, with only a narrow shingle between them and the sea. High above the coast, however, there are warm, sunny little valleys and dells among the hills, where sheep can find pasture and a fold; and here there are many small farmsteads, surrounded by wild rocks and bleak uplands, where the farmer and his family live with their servants, if they happen to have any, as they used to do in old times, sitting in the same kitchen, and taking their meals together as one household.