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Eternal gratitude to an invisible army Miracles, whether they are big or small, are all in God's hands Edita Tronqued-Burgos, Manila Updated: December 18, 2020 10:34 AM GMT Trending Offerings from an invisible army helped ensure a Merry Christmas and that opposition to a dictatorship survived. (Photo: Unsplash)  December 24, 1982, was so different from all the other Christmas Eves in the previous 17 years of married life. Those days would be filled with frenzied activities of last-minute shopping, preparing food and gift wrapping. This time there were no gifts to wrap,...

It was my pleasure to prepare the 2020 Christmas Greetings letters to Santa written by children from all over the county. The special tabloid will be in next week’s edition. Let me warn you — brush up on your phonics. These young writers were 10 years old down to 3, and everywhere in between. The writing improves with each year that passes, but the phonic spellings got me laughing so hard that finishing the preparation was difficult. We committed decades ago to keep these letters to Santa typed as closely to the handwritten originals as possible. Someone here at the Reflex always ha...

As I sit now in my living room, listening to Christmas songs, my mind drifts back many years as I recall our practices on Christmas Eve. In our denomination we didn’t eat meat on Christmas Eve before church services. My mother usually made fish cakes using Gorton’s shredded cod in a can. She added mashed potatoes, onion, celery and various spices and then made patties and fried them. My father loved the fish cakes with canned Franco American spaghetti. The rest of us had either baked beans, baked lima beans or macaroni and cheese with our fish cakes.

In this case, we received nine responses from administrators at Richmond Community Schools. Keith Bartels, principal at Richmond Middle School - Advertisement - One of the Bartels family traditions around the holiday season is to search for that perfect Christmas tree. Each year we spend the day going to varies local tree farms to find our perfect tree. This picture is from last year’s search. We wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Happy holidays to all, the Bartels family. Anthony Birkmeier, dean of students at Richmond Middle School Some of my favorite holiday memorie...

b) Did you ever visit Santa and "make a list?" c) Do you still believe in Santa Claus? d) When did you find out "the truth" about Santa Claus? 2)  Tell us your answers in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Be sure to leave a comment on this post with a link to your answers. Here's mine: I don't think I ever did send a letter. b) Did you ever visit Santa and "make a list?" We visited Santa Claus every year down at the Marston's Department Store in downtown San Diego where my grandfather worked for 55 years. I think we "made a list" sometimes, especial...