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Thanksgiving Remembered and Remade

While no holiday can ever compete with my love of (or perhaps more accurately, my fanaticism about) Christmas, today I find myself wistfully musing on Thanksgivings past. While Christmas captures my love of wonder and magic, Thanksgiving conjures up longings for family. Thanksgiving began, in the Crites household, well before that long-awaited Thursday. Dad (who…

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Christmas Displaced

Lately I have been musing on how often the Christmas story describes people being displaced from their homes. The most obvious example, and the subject of countless Christmas pageants, is the Holy Family leaving Nazareth to trek 90 miles south to Bethlehem. It couldn’t have been easy. The road was not always safe, Mary was…

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