The Great Christmas Truce
I’ve heard quite a few iterations of this lovely story this season — about the Christmas Truce between German and British troops during World War I. It only takes one person to reach out and lead others to fellowship. How impossible it is for us to harm others, to choose war, when we realize by harming our brothers we truly only harm ourselves.
Instead, we can choose love.
There is a lovely post at the following site that describes this the best I’ve seen (thanks to Jodee Bock for the reference):
