Article December 23, 2002 ISSUE

A gathering of light

Sarah C. Nelson

Very late one Christmas night I heard an inspiring story on the car radio. It was broadcast on a station I don't often listen to, but the young woman's story held me captive.

One Christmas, several years before, her family, friends, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents—young and old—were asked to gather in a large room of the house where they were celebrating. Each person was asked to take a seat and hold a single candle, not yet lit.

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