It was my last year of teaching. Just a few days before Christmas break, one of my students, who we will call Sarah, came into my classroom early.After a few minutes of friendly chit-chat, I asked, “So why are you here so early?”Sarah smiled. “It’s because I have a...
A workplace tradition at Christmas is the practise of assigning each employee the name of another co-worker, to be given an anonymous gift. Our office has made our own version of the Secret Santa game; we are to choose a small gift to give which our own secret...
"For our sake [God] made [Jesus] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV)For a few years, American atheists promoted a "Christmas" message: "Keep the merry, dump the myth." This jarring promotion...
One thing I could count on with every class of students, no matter what grade I was teaching, was that I would receive gifts at Christmastime. Of course, the younger grades usually produced more presents, but I always received at least a couple gifts in the older...
She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them." (Luke 2:7 NLT) Christmases at my maternal grandparent's home in Vance, SC, were different, but just as...
Christmas is always a time of great excitement in the classroom. It is, in fact, hard to keep the minds of students on their lessons during the last two weeks leading up to the Christmas break. Of course, part of this excitement is simply because they will have a...
Clankity Clank, Clankity Clank, Clankity-Clankity-Clankity Clank. It was a cold, December day. I had just pulled up to the department store in my old car. As soon as I got out the Winter wind bit into me. Yet, carried on this bitter wind was the sweet sound of a bell...
