Old Order Mennonite Memoirs

"The true miracle of Christmas," writes LaVerne P. Larson, "Is hope and faith and love – These gifts the Christ Child brought to all From heaven high above."

Like gifts that can't be seen, some gifts can't be wrapped either. A pretty, little snow to cover our drab dormancy is a gift. Perhaps highway travelers don't class a freezing rain as a gift, but it was so sparkly and glittering, like ribbons on our brown, bare trees. I thought it was a lovely gift to survey from inside our house where I was busy making cut out cookies with grandchildren. They probably didn't think of decorating cookies i...