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A Classic Christmas: We All Come Home

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During the Christmas season I will be quoting from “A Classic Christmas,” a compilation of beautiful reflections, meditations, and scripture passages. I hope that these selections will help you to enter into this holy season and remember to rely on your faith as a guiding light.


I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday–the longer, the better–from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest. -Charles Dickens

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