Christmas time is a joyful time for families to come together, no matter their religious affiliations, and for the service women and men who are deplo...
My kids sing about Christmas all year round, but when the actual season approaches, truth be told, it wears me out. The tragic events in Newtown last week only made it more difficult to muster up cheer and good will.
Despite having no religious connection to Christmas, I love the holiday because it's just so doggone pretty and smells so yummy, and its music is so beautiful.
G.K. Chesterton once referred to America as "a nation with the soul of a church," by which he meant a nation with an enduring religious character. He was right about this, and each year the Christmas season proves it anew.
Count your blessings. And when you're done counting them, say a prayer for the less fortunate: the hungry, the homeless, the lonely, the destitute and the sick.