DIVER'S DIRECTIVES As a Naval officer began his submarine training, he learned about the "Christmas Tree." This is a control panel with red and green lights that indicate the open and closed position of each…
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THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS There is something about the Christmas time, Something in the spirit of it That sweeps it clean of dust of other days And hallows it. Something that proves the depths of…
WHEN ARE YOU GOING? "How soon after Christmas are you going to heaven?" Her five-year-old grandson's question was so stunning that she stopped making the sandwiches for their lunch. For a minute all she could…
WRONG WISH LIST Little Johnny's parents were puzzled when he announced that he no longer wanted the list of toys he had included on his Christmas gift list. "Didn't you write Santa Claus asking for…
THE CHRISTMAS CHANGE "The Baby is what it was all about. If he had not grown up to become the Jesus Christ of the New Testament, we would never even have heard of the story…
CHRISTMAS EVE TEARS Blessed Is the Ordinary, Reflections of Gerhardt Frost, in his little book he writes: "Christmas eve, late afternoon, I believe I was seven and Mother, bless her, was making something special instead…
WATCH YOUR STEP There was a small country church that was having their yearly Christmas cantata. Part of the ritual of their cantata was that they always marched in singing "O Come, All Ye Faithful"…
CHRISTMAS, AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE In the Christmas stories fear fills the hearts of the mother Mary, the shepherds, and the populace of Jerusalem. We know how the story turned out, so it's…
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A CHRISTMAS GIFT PLUS Sure, sometimes children get it wrong or get it all mixed up with other things, but then sometimes they get it more right than we do. The day after our Annual…
TIME IS AFFORDABLE In Hagar the Horrible, the whole family and all their friends are gathered around the Christmas tree exchanging gifts and Mom says, "Time spent together is a Christmas gift any family can…
HELP IS NEEDED A certain man was not much of a handyman, but he decided to save some money by changing the oil in his car himself. He prepared very carefully. He went to the…
THE DREAM "...an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream." Matthew 1:20 Amiably conversant with virtue and evil, The righteousness of Joseph and wickedness Of Herod, I'm ever and always a stranger…
WRONG SONGS In B.C.'s Christmas edition, The gang is gathered around a piano singing Christmas carols. The first few words of each song is listed: "Rudolf the Red Nosed... "Tis the Season to Be... Jingle…
A BIG HUG CHRISTMAS Mom Ryatt is sitting on the couch with the kids hugging all over her and she sums up the essence of Christmas saying, The best Christmas a person can have is…
SEE SANTA RUN After several mishaps, Andrew, one of the main characters of the comic strip Walnut Cove has gotten himself fired from his job of playing Santa at a Department Store. Standing outside the…
BRING A DRUM In Snafu, Santa is reading Christmas letters, "Dear Santa, My neighbor's lawn mower woke me every Saturday last summer. Please bring his kid a drum set." From Snafu, December 23, 1991
CAN'T BE CHRISTMAS TREES! Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad and the grandkids all went to a farm to pick out and cut down their own Christmas tree one year. As they were trying to decide which…
HARD TO FIND Classified Ad in the Springfield, Mass, UNION: "XMAS TAG SALE - Handmade gifts for the hard to find person. Jeannette Guinard in Detroit News
KEEP THE DREAM A week before Christmas, a wife told her husband, "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed you gave me $200.00 on a new Christmas wardrobe. You wouldn't want to do…
COMPULSORY CHRISTMAS A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together; it's not individual; it's sociable. By Garrison Keillor
