There was a time when I believed life moved in straight lines. If I made careful plans, if I worked hard enough, if I loved well enough, things would unfold as expected. I thought certainty was something you earned. But life, it turns out, has never been interested in our neat expectations. It bends. It…
Tag: peace
This World Needs Christmas
Imagine being far from home, cold, scared, and surrounded by the horrors of war. That was life for millions of soldiers in the trenches during World War I. But on Christmas Eve in 1914, something happened that still gives me chills every time I think about it. The soldiers on the Western Front had been…
Apples of Gold 