A time for seeking the light

Mom would make magic bars – those delightfully tasty, baked combinations of graham cracker crumbs, coconut, chocolate chips and walnuts held together with butter and sweetened condensed milk – and Dad would sit us down in the living room and crack open the Good Book.

It was the only time of the year he would read it out loud to us, so we knew it was special. Luke 2:

“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree went out from Caesar Augustus …”

This is that time of...