1. The First Time He Heard Silent NightThe first time Noah heard Silent Night, he was three years old and sitting on the kitchen counter, his legs swinging in the air like small clock pendulums.Snow drifted lazily outside the window, soft and uncertain, as if the sky couldn’t decide whether it was really winter yet. The little apartment smelled like instant … [Read more...] about Silent Night: The Last Lullaby of a Mother
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Silent Night 1914: A Christmas Truce Story of Human Grace
1. The Frozen Trenches of FlandersSnow fell in thin, hesitant flakes over the trenches of Flanders, drifting down as if unsure whether it truly wanted to touch the earth below. The flakes met mud, vanished instantly, and the world returned to its colorless churn of brown and gray. Evening was crawling in, slow and heavy, and the smell of wet iron and smoke clung … [Read more...] about Silent Night 1914: A Christmas Truce Story of Human Grace