It was December 1914. Europe was in turmoil—men from warring nations left empty chairs at Christmas dinner tables. Germany and Britain had become definite enemies. Peace, the “well being” kind of shalom, was definitely absent on the front lines, absent from the villages, absent from the seats of power….
That Christmas, a group of women in Britain wrote an open letter to the women of Germany, women of “the enemy nation” who shared the same pain of losing husbands and sons and fathers to war. Continue reading “A Christmas Message”