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Advent, Day 7: Keep Christmas Calm

Last year a mother in Pennsylvania wrote me a sad letter about Christmas in her home. “It had…

Advent, Day 5: I Remember Three Christmases

So it comes again, this marvelous Christmas season, the time of chimes and carols, of joy and wonder.…

Advent, Day 24: Mary and the Angel

For with God nothing shall be impossible.—Luke 1:37 What do angels look like? What did the archangel Gabriel…

Advent, Day 21: Angels and the Star of Bethlehem

Soon after Christ’s birth, as everyone knows, Wise Men from the East came to Jerusalem. Tradition has it…

Advent, Day 20: When Christmas Past Is Present

My memories of Christmas around the turn of the century in the town of Lynchburg, Ohio, are still…

Advent, Day 19: Making Ready for Christmas

A wreath with blazing candles, children building a miniature crèche, an old lady in a little Texas town…

Advent, Day 16: A Christmas Wish

There is, in my office, a toy coal scuttle that is only four inches high. It has been…

Advent, Day 14: A Host of Angels and the Shepherds

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host…—Luke 2:13 Surely one of the…

Advent, Day 13: The Timeless Time

Golden stars and angels. Festive lights and carols. Shoppers with bags of wrapped packages. Windows glowing with yuletide…

Advent, Day 11: If Christ Had Never Been Born

On a July day last summer several of us were standing by the entrance to a cave in…

Advent, Day 10: To Be Alive at Christmas

One marvelous thing about Christmas—have you noticed?—is the way our senses come alive. As Christ’s birthday approaches, everything…

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