It’s Christmas again, the season of love and good will. It is the season of undying hope and Christian charity. It is the time of the year when kindness wells up within the most hardened souls. Christmas is the season when we look forward to the sound of carols, and sleigh bells, and most of […]
A Christmas Gift From Heaven
Today is Hannah’s Birthday. She is twenty-three today. Today I’m re-posting a poem I wrote when she was born: Our snow-enshrouded home was nestled neath God’s providential care Anticipating the arrival of a special package there. Then as if dispatched from heaven borne on angel-wings A parcel came to rest among our festive fashionings What […]
Chuk-Christmas Song-Detroit
In the Bleak Mid-Winter Our son, Chuk is going to sing “In the Bleak Mid-Winter” at our Christmas Eve Service at 5:00 p.m. at Evangel Baptist Church in Taylor, Michigan. It is a beautiful candlelight service I’m sure you will enjoy. Hope you can come. Thanks, Chuk for your efforts on this.
Alive to Wonder
Last Christmas Eve I was sitting in our cozy home when I felt a tug to go to a downtown church for the Christmas Eve service. I got my topcoat and keys and headed out. Kyle and Hannah went along. It was perfect. Snow was falling in the city. The service was everything you could […]
Crisis Next Door (Christmas)
Chuk came back from the bank next door yesterday and reported that one of the tellers is not in the Christmas spirit this year. “That’s sad,” I said. “We can’t have that.” I wondered what it was that robbed her of the childlike enthusiasm for this wonderful time of the year. Whatever it is it […]
Highland Park
Ted loved his new company car with leather upholstery a high-end music package and the special Bose speaker system, but he hated the idea of spending another day driving in it hours north into the West Michigan sales district. The Western Michigan rep was down with appendicitis. A key account had to have attention and […]