Dear Friend, This Christmas, something in me has shifted. At 82, the sparkle of toys and the excitement of gifts no longer pull at my heart. What matters now is…
It was two days before Christmas and two men were standing at Michigan Avenue and Delaware Place in Chicago during the Christmas rush, waiting for the red light to change.…
Author Harold Kohn said in a little book titled “The Tinsel and the Hay”: “How could Christianity ever become the dull affair some people imagine it to be when it…
Advent is a time of stories, of Jesus’ birth so dear, But also a time to look within, to see ourselves clear. We shouldn’t be comfortable with hunger near our door, For their…
In one of the best Peanuts cartoons, Snoopy is sitting in the doorway of his dog house shivering violently during a winter storm. You can see that it is near…
Charles de Gaulle was a famous French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II. He became President of…
ADVENT SPEAKS OF A LONGING DEEP Advent speaks of a longing deep,A yearning that our hearts do keep.In daily strife and tears we find,A hope that heals our aching mind.…
I don’t know where life may be defeating you this Advent. I don’t know how Jesus may be disappointing you this Advent. But I would suggest to you this Advent…
SHOULD YOU FIND IT HARD TO SLEEP TONIGHT Should you find it hard to sleep tonight, Think of those with no bed in sight. Remember the family without a place, Finding shelter in…
IN LIFE’S SLOW MARCH WE GROW SO COLD In life’s slow march we grow so cold,Our hearts like stones, our spirits old.We age unseen, like greying hair,Until a photo shows…
“Two different worlds….We live in two different worlds….” These words of an old song are really true, aren’t they? We do live in two different worlds. We’re born that way…the haves…
A husband and wife were having some problems at home. They had argued and now they were giving each other the silent treatment. It lasted all weekend long, it was…
William Faulkner, the novelist, toiled for years as an unknown, disrespected writer in rural Mississippi before he finally gained recognition. When he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950,…
