December 2019 Issue

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In his Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot wrote that “last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” If he were alive today, what verses would Eliot use to describe 2019?

Happiness and joy. Those are two words that get tossed around quite a bit at this time of year and certainly with good reason.

A pilgrim travels to a holy place and recalls its sacred story. Perhaps no place in the world combines place and story better than Bethlehem in the Holy Land.

By the time you read this column, you might already be burned out on Christmas music, and we’re just now actually getting into the season!