Christmas

Leavings everywhere – leftover ham in the fridge, Chex mix scattered about, crumpled red and green wrapping, a gift forgotten, someone’s...

(Note to reader: Following is a Christmas meditation punctuated by verses from the original salvation song, Michael Row the Boat Ashore,...

Something was wrong. My otherwise un-intruded childhood witnessed my dark-colored friend, Daniel, mistreated. The uneasiness covered me...

It all began the day I got the news. Opening a box containing a pacifier has its effect. The news arrested my unrestricted, youthful...

“Therefore persevere. By God’s help and by your own faithfulness something good will come from the unpromising beginning. For there are...

Advent, beginnings, are like that old Confucius saying – the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In my life, it began...

In my mind, I’m traveling across the South Carolina sand hills, driving the backroads passing landmarks so familiar each barely receives...

Images appear intermittently in my mind. A confluence of past years merge within me to form this feeling I call Christmas. I confess the...

Christmas trees cut from Uncle Allen’s farm, listening to the chorus of “Be good because Santa Claus is coming and have you been a good...

For the real good of every gift is essential first, that the giver be in the gift—as God always is, for He is love—and next, that the...