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December 21, 2006

Love fills the empty chair at Christmas

Jeremy Carper

Elvis Presley’s hit song 50 years ago this season was “Blue Christmas.

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December 21, 2006

Fill your days with joy

Anita Ross

A few weeks before Christmas, my mail included a card with this marvelous statement,

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December 20, 2006

Luminous Christmas

Beatrice Labarthe

In the solarium of gratitudemy heart warms the world—love’s candles,burning with beatitude,melt the frost of solitude.

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December 18, 2006

The day started with tennis and ended with healing

Lynn Gray Jackson

Not long ago, I was playing tennis with my husband, Chris.

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December 18, 2006

Real beauty is more than skin deep

Amy Richmond

It has never been harder for girls to feel good about themselves.

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December 18, 2006

The spicy aroma of cookies baking in the kitchen, the woodsy scent of the newly arrived Christmas tree in the living room—delightful as these are, it is gratitude for the Christly love in our hearts that is the true fragrance of Christmas.

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December 18, 2006

Searching for and finding "Mr. Right"

Virginia Hughes

I’d been in a committed relationship for 12 years, when my life began to change.

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December 11, 2006

How divine Mind brought clarity to my college coursework

Jodie Swales

The class I was studying in college was, ironically, called “Communication and Cultural Forms.

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December 7, 2006

A prayer for the innocent—meaning everyone—in Darfur

Jeremy Carper

More than a thousand individuals, houses of worship, and faith-based organizations throughout the United States are expected to participate in a “Weekend of Prayer for Darfur” from December 8 to 10, 2006.

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December 4, 2006

Volunteering at church gave me something to sing about

June Sullivan

I couldn’t sing.

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December 4, 2006

Gentle silence brings peace

Margaret Watson

My husband and I know a quiet, secret place near our home in England’s Lake District.

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November 28, 2006

Christianity then—and now

Charles C. Weston

We often think about the history of the Bible and Christianity as an orderly process, where ideas were written down or reasonably discussed and preserved in a pristine state.

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