The Most Precious Christmas Gift

William and Melinda Smith are a loving couple from the suburbs of New York City who longed to have a family and always dreamed of having children, but when they receive the news that they are expecting multiples, they are excited, expecting them to be twins or triplets, but when they find that they are having sextuplets; six babies/fetuses in one pregnancy, they get more than they bargained for and yet they find that they love all six of their babies and best of all; Melinda goes into labor on Christmas Eve and Melinda and Bill find that they end up receiving the most wonderful Christmas gifts that they could've ever received

While traveling to Bethlehem with his beloved dog, a young servant to one of the Magi worries about finding a gift to give the baby Jesus.

"Unwed and heavily pregnant, Eve Shrock faces a difficult Christmas--soon her baby will arrive and be adopted by another Amish family. Though Eve finds a friend in Noah Wiebe, the baby's uncle-to-be, she can't afford to fall for him. He might just make her wish for a future that seems impossible...one with her baby in her arms and Noah at her side. From Harlequin Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope"--

Mothering is messy. Our joy and hope in raising children doesn’t change the reality that being a mom can be frustrating, stressful, and tiring. But just as God is using us to shape our children, God is using our children and motherhood to shape us. In The Better Mom, author Ruth Schwenk, herself a mother of four children, encourages us with the good news that there is more to being a mom than the extremes of striving for perfection or simply embracing the mess. We don’t need to settle for surviving our kids’ childhood. We can grow through it. With refreshing and heartfelt honesty Ruth emboldens moms to: Find freedom and walk confidently in purpose Create a God-honoring home environment Overcome unhealthy and destructive emotions such as anger, anxiety, and more Avoid glorifying the mess of mom-ing or idolizing perfection Cultivate life-giving friendships At the heart of The Better Mom is the message that Jesus calls us to live not a weary life, but a worthy life. We don’t have to settle for either being apathetic or struggling to be perfect. Both visions of motherhood go too far. Ruth offers a better option. She says, “It’s okay to come as we are, but what we’re called to do and be is far too important to stay there! The way to becoming a better mom starts not with what we are doing, but with who God is inviting us to become."

Leanna Burns, author of many great SOULful books, * is currently working on a new book titled Shop Your Soul at Christmas. This book has twelve chapters that correspond to the verses of the The Twelve Days Of Christmas. And yet, the soul self-help lesson in each chapter is really something that should be heeded (no matter the occasion) throughout the year. The reason it is a Christmas book, per se, is because that is the holiday whereby our human characteristics overrided our being qualities and someone died as a result. The book honors that and draws attention to that time of year, rather than speaking of other kinds of holidays.

This book is about teaching children the value of giving gifts at Christmas rather than receiving gifts. A Grandpa sits down with his three grandchildren on Christmas Eve to read Twas The Night Before Christmas. After the first page, his grandson Ben asks him what he wants for Christmas. Grandpa begins to tell the grandchildren a story of asking their parents to give gifts to others at Christmas. He asked his teenage children to give him a Christmas gift by giving to others. He also asked them to write him a letter explaining the gift and what it meant to them. These letters have become Grandpa’s most precious gifts on Christmas morning. The grandchildren liked the stories about their parent’s gifts to their Grandpa. They all promise to pass on the family tradition to their children.

Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas to you all! This festive season, we are playing the Santa, and offering you our own Christmas basket of holiday goodies: the greatest Christmas novels and magical Christmas Tales: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) The Ice Queen (Ernest Ingersoll) A Merry Christmas (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen) The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm) Mother Holle (Brothers Grimm) A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Shepherds and the Angels (Bible) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) A Russian Christmas Party (Leo Tolstoy) Vanka (Anton Chekhov) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Chimes (Charles Dickens) The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Robinson Perrault) The Blue Bird (Madame d'Aulnoy) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express (William Dean Howells) The Pumpkin Glory (William Dean Howells) Christmas Eve & Christmas Day (Edward Everett Hale) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Christmas - A Story (Zona Gale) The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry van Dyke) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) Christmas Roses (Anne Douglas Sedgwick)....