The weary world rejoices
...the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn... "O Holy Night" holds steadfast as my favorite hymn celebrating the birth of Christ. The song is often slow and melodramatic, with [...]
What miracle are you seeking?
White Christmas is a film with so many layers of meaning and depth. Of course, there are great song and dance numbers, songs by Irving Berlin, budding romances with Betty & Bob and Phil [...]
Why I Became A Teacher
We had an essay contest at school for educators to submit their writing piece and I hope this inspires or encourages someone who is considering education. It’s such a fulfilling calling and I’m honored [...]
Healing and hope during this season
This is our ragged, fleshly life: tragedy and grief in the middle of our existence, bookended at both sides by delightful joy and felicity. We encounter the deepest delight, followed by profound heartbreak, and [...]
The wonderful gift of friendship
I am convinced that at the end of "It's A Wonderful Life," when George Bailey is crying, it's not the money pouring in or the building and loan that they have all saved, but [...]
1,000 miles from home
We were 1,000 miles away in the Chicago suburbs the first year I couldn't get home to Colorado. I was 37 years old. My daughters were in elementary school, and my husband's job as [...]
A Christmas Welcome
A weary world rejoices... and we're still a world in sin and error pining. Yet what a Holy Night when Christ, The Word, became flesh! We celebrate His light, His love, His sacrifice, His [...]
1st of December, 1959: a new hope
On the 1st of December, 1959, my mother and her family immigrated from the Netherlands to Los Angeles, bringing very little except incredible hope and dreams of making the United States their home, and [...]