Tuesday, December 11, 2007

"Gentle Joys": some of my favorite Christmas books


1. A Woman's Christmas: Returning to the Gentle Joys of the Season by Arlene Hamilton Stewart (Victoria magazine). This is my favorite "scenario" Christmas book... I would love to have the kind of lovely, classic, feminine, perfect Christmas season that it describes.

2. Simply SenseSational Christmas by Terry Willits. A beautiful Christ-centered, home-centered book.


3. The Twelve Teas of Christmas by Emilie Barnes, illustrated by Sandy Lyman Clough. A book full of charming ideas to celebrate "friendship," "family," "warmth," "peace," "dreams," and "stillness," to name a few.


4. Christ in the Carols by Christopher and Melodie Lane. A small treasure, full of the lyrics to some of the most inspired music of our age, along with Scripture, and often, the stories behind the songs.

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