Echoes From the Campfire

Now, the tree is decorated with bright merriment, and song, and dance and cheerfulness. And they are welcome. Innocent and welcome be they ever held, beneath the branches of the Christmas Tree, which cast no gloomy shadow! But, as it sinks into the ground, I hear a whisper going through the leaves. ‘This, in commemoration…

Echoes From the Campfire

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It’s lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It’s higher thought and a greater plan. It’s a glorious dream in the soul of man.”                 …

The Saga of Miles Forrest

Miles has been charged by court order to take Todd Johnson to Canon City to begin serving his thirty year sentence.  The snow is lightly falling as the stage has pulled into the last stop before arriving in Canon City.  Miles has noticed that there are additional horses tied to the corral fence.  Does Johnson…

Echoes From the Campfire

Trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you.”                    –Henry Van Dyke        “John himself was not the light; he was simply a witness to tell…