During a writing project retreat in 2008, Margaret Simon wrote a poem entitled, “My Father’s Drawing” about a drawing by her father John Gibson. This poem expressed a longing in her to connect to her father through his artwork. Last Christmas, as she prepared to display the collection of her Dad’s Christmas cards, she was moved to write. Thus began the writing of more poems about her father’s drawings. She hopes the drawings and the poems illuminate hearts and draw readers to a meditation on our Savior’s birth. Inspired by sight of a quaint church in a snow-covered rural terrain in Austria, John Gibson captured the scene in a pen and ink drawing. He shared the drawing with friends in the form of a Christmas card, and the response was so positive, he and his wife decided to print a card of another drawing the next year, and the next, and so on it has gone ever since. Art is not just what John does it is his passion.