This collection of personal reflections on Christmas is written by Sandra Yaude. Born on the east coast, Sandra has skipped across the country during her lifetime and now resides in northern Idaho. These stories were written over a number of years and only recently compiled into this Christmas themed volume.
She hopes each reader will discover a blessing within its pages and be drawn closer to God through its words.
Copyright 2022
Sandra Yaude
Mary’s Resolve
Christmas Vignettes
Excerpt
The morning sun rose above the distant hills, cascading its light over the land, washing trees and shrubs in a flood of shimmering gold. Birds darted from branch to branch, limb to limb, ferreting out their morning breakfast. This scene had not changed in all the years she had beheld it. Early each morning since childhood she walked to the well to fetch water for her family. She loved watching the land awaken to a new day. Often she sang and skipped to the well, enthralled with life, captivated by the unspoiled beauty surrounding her.
This morning instead of being filled with girlish enthusiasm and a zest for life, her mind and heart were filled with foreboding. Her emotions a mix of fear, anticipation, ineffable joy and apprehension all tumbling over each other like a large litter of pullies in a basket. She tried to clear her head and focus on the task at hand but her mind inextricably returned to that event that had changed her life forever.
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