Christmas Homecoming Awakens a City Violinist
Brent, a city orchestra violinist who treats music as work and shuns family warmth, reunites with his father on a Christmas train. A spontaneous jam with old friends reveals Brent’s softened view as he realizes his father’s love and shared music can redeem him. The story ends urging Christmas reflection and faith.
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Tell Me Again Tell Me Again of Our Spring Love
Poem by Henry Edward Warner in the Richmond Times Dispatch recalls a couple’s youthful romance. It contrasts aging with remembered passion by the fireside and the desire to recapture a girl’s first love. The narrator longs for the joy of a simpler, truer affection.
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Checking Up After Job Inquiry in Office
A black visitor asks to use a phone at a white man's office. He calls a Mrs Whiteside and reports the employer wants a good hired man. The man leaves saying he's checking up, while noting he is the one who got the job.
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Your Christmas Room Your Christmas Room
A reflective piece by Martha B. Thomas urges readers to retreat to the inner world for solace on Christmas Eve. It invites crafting imagination as a refuge, lighting internal fires of purpose and cherishing personal castles and dreams once crowded out by daily busyness.
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