UNUSUAL PRESENCE Just prior to Christmas 1979, newspapers pictured an elementary school boy from Easley, South Carolina, riding a camel at Gaza, Egypt, with the great pyramids of Egypt in the background. The name of…
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NO BATTERIES! On Christmas morning was heard, Never a sadder word: "Batteries not included."
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CAROLS In the comic "The Family Circus" by Bil Keane, the little girl and her mother sit at the piano with a "Christmas Songs" book opened. The little girl asks her mother why…
CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDPARENTS After Christmas vacation, a teacher asked her small pupils to write an account of how they spent their holidays. One youngster wrote about a visit to his grandparents in a life-care community…
GOD STILL ANSWERED Once there was a young boy who was desperately hoping to receive a new bicycle for Christmas. Deep down, he knew his parents just could not afford it, but he kept on…
TINSEL ON THE TRACK This poem expresses well the need to look first to ourselves when we discover our prayers are ineffective. It's called "Tinsel on the Track." Once I bought my son an engine…
RUDOLPH THE RED On a tour of Russia during the days of communism, Mr. and Mrs. Jones spent a very pleasant time with their guide Rudolph. However, on the last day of the tour a…
GOD'S CHRISTMAS LIST Just having come through the Christmas season, I am again reminded of the want list children share with Santa Claus. As they sit on his lap, some want small things, others large…
GIFT OF CONTENTMENT In a cemetery in England stands a grave marker with this inscription: "SHE DIED FOR WANT OF THINGS" Alongside that stone is another which reads: "HE DIED TRYING TO GIVE THEM TO…
SUFFERING CHRISTMAS TREE They say that if you creep into an evergreen forest late at night you can hear the trees talking. In the whisper of the wind, you'll catch the older pines explaining to…
TIME & CHRISTMAS Christmas is the day that holds time together. -- Alexander Smith
UNWRAPPING WRAPPERS Remember, if you give someone wrapping paper for a Christmas present, be sure to wrap it in a different pattern of wrapping paper--so the recipient will know when to stop unwrapping.
LIFE OF A SHEPHERD Recently a news reporter interviewed a Bethlehem shepherd: Ibraham Ali Tamaari, a 55-year-old shepherd who has spent his life following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, leading his sheep…
FREQUENT CHRISTMAS SALES A sign on a department store was an indication that perhaps Christmas has become too commercialized. The sign read: Semi-Annual After-Christmas Sale!
GOD DESCENDED "In the Christian story God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature he has created. But He goes down to come up again…
THE CHRISTIAN STORY "The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human…
C. S. LEWIS ON THE VIRGIN BIRTH "No woman ever conceived a child, no mare a foal, without Him. But once, and for a special purpose, He dispensed with that long line which is His…
LARRY KING ON THE VIRGIN BIRTH Some time ago, Larry King the renowned talk show host, was asked who he would like to interview if he had his pick from all of history. His answer…
THE GOSPEL GIFT In all likelihood your Christmas list contains the names of your loved ones, your relatives, friends and neighbors--for you dread the tragic experience of forgetting someone to whom a gift would be…
CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT THE WEATHER To avoid offending anybody, the schools dropped religion altogether from their Christmas programs and started singing about weather. At my son's school, they now hold the Winter Program in February…
