At Christmas The Heart Goes Home

An inspiring selection of stories, prayers, and poems that evoke the warm magic of the holidays, written in the folksy, sentimental style that has made Marjorie Holmes a best-selling favorite for countless Americans.

Do you remember a time in your childhood when Christmas was a truly magical season? The family and friends who drew near, the plays and cantatas at the local church, the twinkling lights strung on street lamps and across the town square? As a child growing up in the South during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kathy Stroup shares the Christmases loved most by all of those who were coming of age during those years. She has succeeded in capturing the essence of the season with heartfelt stories so endearingly personal yet so universal to a generation that it will be almost impossible to read A Heart Goes Home for Christmas without taking the journey yourself. Back to the holidays you cherish most. So find a cozy spot and prepare to smile, laugh, possibly shed a few tears and remember as your heart goes home for Christmas.

Why is it that there's no place like home for the holidays? How come we hanker to go home for Christmas even if it's only in our dreams? Perhaps it's because each of us desires to love and be loved in return. Home should be a place where we're loved just because we are who we are - family. May the words, illustrations and song found in this book be like a fragrant Christmas tree's aroma and help you remember and feel again good thoughts about going home for Christmas all year 'round.

Why is it that there's no place like home for the holidays? How come we hanker to go home for Christmas, even if it's only in our dreams? Perhaps it's because each of desires to be loved, and to love in return. Home should be a place where we're loved, just because we are who we are, family. May the words, illustrations and song found in this book be like a fragrant Christmas Tree's aroma and help you remember and feel again, good thoughts about going home for Christmas, all year 'round.

Open up this precious treasury of classic stories and you rediscover what makes Christmas so special. Fond memories come flooding back as these heartwarming tales transport you to happy times surrounded by family and friends. What makes these stories such a special gift is that they come from the heart. They share the spark of Christmas in all of us--the caring, the sharing, and the self-giving love. Joe Wheeler's great discovery is that the best of Christmas is in our hearts, and we embrace life in new ways when we read heartwarming stories about this joyous season. He was so convinced of this that he began to collect all sorts of Christmas stories, old and new, from far and wide. With the trained eye of a seasoned English professor, and the sensitive heart of one who grew up listening to wonderful stories year after year, he knows a good story when he hears it. In Christmas in My Heart, the author brings together the best old familiar favorites and fresh new yarns from his literary treasure trove. The riches of master storytellers such as Pearl S. Buck, Madeleine L'Engle, Taylor Caldwell, and O. Henry are combined with stirring tales from the golden age of Christmas stories to form a priceless treasury of holiday classics. Read them once, to loved ones or in peaceful solitude, and they will forever become a part of your family's Christmas traditions. Because these stories sparkle and shine with the true spirit of Christmas, they will make you smile, bring tears to your eyes, and give you goose bumps all over. You may give this delightful collection as a gift from the heart to someone you love, or buy it for yourself. No matter what, you won't be able to put it down, or to let one Christmas pass by without opening this timeless treasury of heartwarming stories.

Why is it that there's no place like home for the holidays? How come we hanker to go home for Christmas, even if it's only in our dreams? Perhaps it's because each of us desires to love and to be loved in return. Home should be a place where we're loved just because we are who we are - family. May the words, illustrations and song found in this book be like a fragrant Christmas tree's aroma and help you remember, and feel again, good thoughts about going home for Christmas, all year 'round.

Christmas would not be the same without a new collection of heartwarming stories from Joe Wheeler. This year's treasury continues the holiday tradition in grand style with stories that touch the heart and bring to life the spirit of giving that truly embodies the meaning of Christmas. Like the previous three volumes, Christmas in My Heart, a Fourth Treasury is bound to become as dog-eared and tattered from readings and rereadings in that place we call home. These cherished tales tell of sorrow turned to joy, sadness overcome by hope, gifts made priceless with heartfelt love, and dreams that can only come alive in this magical holiday season. Never one to disappoint, Joe Wheeler has done it again with this collection of stories that radiate the warmth of Christmas.