Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from my North Carolina Home to Yours. Today, I am watching my favorite Jane Austen movies and writing a new chapter of one of my three works in progress. It will be a quiet day, for my grandchildren are in Ohio visiting their other grandmothers (We celebrated several days prior.), and for both the solitary hours and those I have spent with my family this year I am thankful. I am also thankful for my health and my good fortune to know people of your caliber.

I encourage each of you to give God what he most wants for Christmas. Not your life: He has no use for it. God bestowed “life” upon you. Instead, consider giving him what he most desires: your sin.