A heavy snowstorm was raging, and great soft flakes fell through the air like feathers shaken from the wings of an innumerable host of angels. By the side of the roadway sat a poor old woman, her scanty clothing forming but a poor protection from the icy blasts of the wind. […]

With spring finally upon us, I was inspired this week to write about this welcome season that marks the casting off of winter’s chilling sadness and replaces it with the blossoming of fair vernal floras. As is my manner, I began bringing my idea to fruition by researching seasonal stories. […]

“I don’t need a snowstorm today,” Ellen Gates said when it began to snow one winter day in 1860. “If I can’t go outside, I’ll stay in.” That obvious observation led Ellen, a poet and hymn writer, to a moment of inspiration that created in her mind’s eye the following line: “If […]

In 1855, a famous man of letters, the Danish author and poet, Hans Christian Anderson wrote of the solace and comfort that faith provides even, or especially, amidst the worst of circumstance. His tale is short in length, but long in meaning. It is entitled In the Uttermost Parts of the […]