Preacher's Piece

An elderly widow decided it was too much trouble to get all of her kids and grandkids’ Christmas presents, so she decided to send them a check with a card. A few days after she mailed all the cards, she discovered she forgot to include the checks in the cards. Imagine all those kids opening a card from grandma with a note inside that says, “Buy your own presents.”

Recently, I was reading an article that said all the traditional Christmas movies have the real meaning of Christmas veiled in the story lines, except for A Charlie Brown Christmas, the animated 1965 special where they come...