Senkbeil, Harold L. Sleep in Heavenly Peace Modern Reformation Article.(2004,November/December)6.
Will you catch it this year? That illusive feeling called “the Christmas spirit?” Usually it’s brought on by healthy doses of the familiar trappings of the season: twinkling lights on Christmas trees, gaily wrapped packages, strains of familiar carols. These all bring on annual waves of nostalgia, weaving their magical web in heart and mind. For some, in view of the agony and suffering of mankind, all that seems inappropriate this year. It’s not just the hardened Scrooges that are skeptical. You know the perennial complaint: “More than two thousand years have gone by, and still there is no ‘peace on earth,’ no ‘good will among men.’”…