The time of Christmas draws nigh. I receive countless emails informing me with bold letters that this is the last day to purchase that special Christmas gift and ensure its arrival by Christmas Day… We scurry about with the joys and stresses of the season but in our really good health and make true our commitment to our love for the holiday and the Baby for whom it is named. 

Have you ever been sick? What a loaded question as all of us have. One Christmas many years ago I became suddenly so ill that MJ Aaron and Jonathon went to Grandmother’s House without me. My niece called me and said how they had missed me. It made such an impression on me that I remember it over 30 years later.

I have been with loved ones who were very ill at Christmas. Not only are they worried…but all of their family and friends are as well. Christmas is a light of joy in the darkness. It is a candle raging against the dark…

As we become older we become less adventurous and less mobile. My Aunt Vema and Uncle Ed always left our Christmas dinner at Neva J’s early to get home at Stonefort before it became dark and it did so at 5:00 P:M:. I used to ponder their assertion that they did not like to drive in the dark…and now I do not either. 

Life’s Chapters blow by as if in a stiff wind. First, we are young and feel certain that it will always be such. Then we work around the clock to provide for our family and to get ahead and become involved in many controversies that have little meaning when gazed at through the rearview mirror. 

Often the questions of life seem to require immediate answers. Christmas settles us a bit. Our journey is ongoing on Christmas Day…but it is different because of the light…