December 19, 2020 A Fighter Pilot’s Christmas The Longest Four Hours of My Life By Robert L. Benton, submitted by Ken Benton It was Christmas Eve, December 24, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans had broken through our defensive lines and surrounded our troops in Bastogne. It...
December 18, 2020 A Place to Call Home By Norris Frederick As Christmas approached in 1945, my parents were having trouble making ends meet and would soon have no place to live. Like Mary and Joseph, they needed someone to house them and their children for a while. My grandparents...
December 17, 2020 When Peace Like a River Attends My Soul By Ken Sanford I owe the peace of my spirit to the enlightened churches I attended over the years. At Clyde Baptist Church near Asheville, I didn’t know what ministers there were practicing, but later learned it was ecumenism....
December 16, 2020 The Unexpected Gift of Peace By Sara Vavra “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” John 14:27 This scripture reminds me of...
December 15, 2020 Being a Blessing to Another By Rev. Lee Gray I met him in the summer of 1991. I was selling educational books and Bibles door to door in Monroe, Louisiana. One day, I knocked on a door and an African American in his early sixties answered it....
December 14, 2020 God’s Hands By Bert Green Do we offer ourselves as God’s hands in the world hoping that God will find us worthy, or do we offer ourselves with the joyful realization and thanksgiving that God so loved the world that God sent us God’s beloved Son to...
December 13, 2020 God’s Hands Show Love By James Laney GOD’S HANDS . . . can support . . . can heal . . . can send retribution . . . can comfort but mostly, GOD’S HANDS show LOVE. I was eating lunch one day last week at a quick-service...
December 12, 2020 Mary’s Hands By Amy L. Chilton “Mary said, ‘With my heart, I glorify the Lord! In the depths of who I am I rejoice in God my savior. He has looked with favor on the low status of his servant. Look! From now on, everyone will consider...
December 11, 2020 Offering the Powerful Spirit of Your Hands By Nancy Fuller “But I only have two hands!!!” sighs the tired and overwhelmed Mom (might have been me). From my perspective, the problem isn’t that we only have two of them. Instead, I think it is the disconnect between...
December 10, 2020 Extending Hope By Todd Stillerman 2020 marks the fiftieth holiday season of my life. Debbie’s parents live in New England, and she decided when we got married that we would not be traveling northward for holidays (we visit in the spring and fall). Thanks to her generosity,...
