When I think about the current events in this world I start to feel this madness creep up inside me, tottering on the verge of a complete, catastrophic breakdown. I’ve sat alone in the basement of my house and watched the news capture civilians in Iraq throw their babies onto helicopters, doing anything they can to just escape the flames engulfing them. I’ve sat and watched, this intense desire to tear my eyes out, to scratch my skin until my whole soul was bleeding fro

O Holy Night. ———————– The moon was cast high in the sky, the glow descending upon all the hills of the small village of Bethlehem. A chill swept through the town, the cold glistening off lamp posts, cobble stone pathways. The breath of the donkey a cloud of mist, huffing and whining as he carried Her, belly full with the Divine. Inside, Joseph began to panic. He led the donkey through the narrow streets, the moon as his light. He could feel his heart beat faster as lig