vol. 3 no. 16: joy to the world

Who Said It Would Be Easy?
Helena Leyenaar has a lot to be thankful for this Christmas. It has been four months since her last chemo appointment, she has beautiful curly hair again and she hasn’t received a lump of coal from Black Pete yet.


Africa on My Mind
Ellie Hagey recently visited Malawi to hold and care for babies orphaned by AIDS. “Although Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world,” she writes, “there is no short supply of laughter, joy and smiles.”


This Christmas I Get to Bake Cookies
“A wise friend once told me to look at life, its responsibilities and activities as what I ‘get’ to do, not what I’ve ‘got’ to do. Changing that one vowel between those consonants transformed my perspective,“ says Shirley Love Rayburn.


Devotion: A Pocket of Peace
Marnie Mitchell reminds us that when we have Peace, we get a break from our everyday troubles.

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