Happy 12 Days of Blogmas Day 6! Today’s story is one you are likely familiar with. It’s a well-documented and oft repeated historical event and I have read various accounts about it over the years. But I think the reason it’s a story that is repeated so frequently is because it is so remarkable. If... Continue Reading →
Happy 12 Days of Blogmas Day 5! Sometimes in the midst of a busy holiday season, we need to slow down and take some time to breathe and reflect on the whys behind our crazy rushing around. Henry David Thoreau, best known for his work, Walden, and reflections on nature and being an advocate for... Continue Reading →
On Christmas Eve 1967, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a Christmas sermon at his home congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King had been asked by the Canadian Broadcasting Company to deliver a series of five lectures for their Massey Lecture Series and the sermon was broadcast as the... Continue Reading →
In December 1965, NASA Mission Control experienced a few tense moments when Gemini astronauts Wally Schirra Jr and Tom Stafford called in a report of an unidentified flying object: “We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, up in a polar orbit. He’s in a very low trajectory traveling from... Continue Reading →
Last year at Christmas, I wrote a blog post entitled, “Christmas 1944” about Corrie Ten Boom. Corrie’s story remains one of my favorites and I have a collection of five books written by or about Corrie Ten Boom. I wrote my post last year about the experience Corrie had in the Ravensbruck infirmary at Christmas... Continue Reading →
Hello! Welcome to the Twelve Days of Blogmas 2021!! For the next 12 days, I will be posting a Christmas-themed blog post daily leading up to Christmas Day. I have been researching little known or inspirational stories about the holiday season and I am excited to be able to share some of the stories I’ve... Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Stepping off the midnight train on New Year’s Day about Corrie Ten Boom’s release from the concentration camp Ravensbruck just in time to ring in New Year’s Day a free woman as her sister Betsie had foreseen. Backing up a few days before this new found freedom,... Continue Reading →
In high school, my group of friends went through a period of being slightly obsessed with quoting the holiday classic Christmas Vacation. It’s one of those movies to me that if I had just watched it on my own and moved on with life, it probably wouldn’t have been one of my favorites, but since... Continue Reading →
“I can’t imagine a man enjoying a book and only reading it once.” CS Lewis “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” CS Lewis “Clearly, one must read every good book at least once every 10... Continue Reading →
Rachel F. Jean 