The Love of and for the Son

It's the holiday season! Andy Williams sang that phrase with great joy many years ago. As I have mentioned before, this holiday season I am in a version of A Christmas Carol in a community theater production. We perform as if we were recording the familiar story for a radio broadcast before a studio audience in 1946. I do the voice of Bob Cratchit and his dear son, Tiny Tim. Let's just say the parts have some ups and downs.

Most folks are at least somewhat familiar with the haunting tale of Scrooge and his ultimate redemption. In one stave he learns that the less fortunate Cratchit family...