An Advent Reflection from Biblegateway.com

From Biblegateway.com.

The Christmas truce on Flanders Field in Belgium is a timeless testimony to the power of the birth of Christ. On the western front of World War I, a brief, unofficial cessation of hostilities occurred between British and German forces. It began on Christmas Eve 1914, when German soldiers in their trenches began singing “Silent Night.” The British stopped firing and began singing English carols. Soon the troops were greeting each other across no-man’s-land and exchanging small gifts.

This appealed to the old history teacher in me. Read it all.