The Longest Night of the Year
Originally written in 2006 for a “Blue Christmas” service at Tellico Village Community Church Tonight the earth will come to its winter solstice, and we in the northern hemisphere will experience the shortest day of the year. There will be only about 9 and a half hours of daylight on December 21st. And that means the night is 14 and a half hours long. At the Arctic Circle, the night is 24-hours long. That’s a very long night. The longest night of the year. My friend Ken Paul once told me after his beautiful wife Dot passed away that the [READ MORE]