Ninety-seven years ago, on the first Christmas Day of World War I, British and German troops put down their guns and celebrated peacefully together in the no-man’s land between the trenches. The war, briefly, came to a halt. In some places, festivities began when German troops lit candles on Christmas trees on their parapets so
This year I’m thankful for: Graduations – Moms (and even Dads!) get all misty-eyed…relatives/friends come in from all points…it’s usually too hot and too crowded, but there is an unmistakable feeling of accomplishment and the hope and promise and excitement of the future * A wonderful trip to New York/New Jersey with the best youth
In A Man Called Peter, the biography of Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, his wife, Catherine Marshall recounts a strange incident that happened to Peter early in his life. He was working in the English village of Bamburgh , sixteen miles from the Scottish border. One dark and starless night, walking from a nearby village, Marshall
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