SATB a cappella or SSA a cappella, 4' SATB version premiered by International Orange Chorale, December 2018 SSA version premiered by Accord Treble Choir, December 2019 In 2017 I decided to write a Christmas carol. Unable to find a text that really spoke to me, I wrote my own, imagining how Joseph and Mary must have felt at the birth of their child—probably, I surmised, much like how I myself felt at the birth of my own two children. I think this is one reason why Christmas tends to touch us all so deeply: the beauty and innocence of a newborn child is felt instinctively and universally.