Two Christmas Miracles

By Tom Mach

This book of fiction contains two touching Christmas stories. Each story shows a different aspect of God's love with one of His miracles during the Christmas season. One story is entitled "Keeping Warm on Christmas" about a once-famous drummer who is now homeless and searching for shelter on Christmas Eve. The other story is entitled "A Chronograph Watch for Carolyn" and is about a widow who has a five-year-old daughter but who is virtually penniless and can't afford fulfilling her daughter's wish for a special present.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Mach
• Release date: Nov 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370600083

Tom Mach

Tom Mach wrote three successful historical novels, Sissy!, All Parts Together, and Angels at Sunset. The first two were listed among the 150 best Kansas books in 2011. Sissy! won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award while All Parts Together was a viable entrant for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Award. Angels at Sunset was a Finalist for the International Book Award. Tom's latest collection of poetry is The Museum Muse and his previous poetry collection won the 2008 Nelson Poetry Book Award. He also wrote a collection of short stories entitled Stories To Enjoy which received positive reviews. In addition to winning poetry awards from Kansas Authors Club, Tom was a finalist in a nationwide Writer’s Digest Awards competition He coaches writing for 4th and 5th graders in his spare time.

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Foreword

What happened to Christmas?

How did Santa Claus replace Jesus when it’s not Santa’s birthday, but Christ’s?

Good questions. I can recall past Christmases when the radio would play Christmas carols—I mean Christ-centered songs like Joy to the World or It Came Upon a Midnight Clear almost all day long from the week preceding Christmas to the actual day itself. I can also remember going to the park or a public place and seeing statues of the Virgin Mary, Joseph, the Babe, and adoring shepherds.

Now, seldom does the radio play even a single Christ-centered carol and rare indeed is it that television gave any mention about Jesus Christ at Christmas time. (We don’t want to offend anyone who doesn’t want to recognize whose birthday it is, do we?) It’s also now impossible to find a public place that features a Nativity scene because, of course, the ACLU claims that we would be promoting religion. (But, of course, it is all right to put up a statue of a heathen god in a public square because, well, it’s artistic.)

Anyway, I’m not only a believer in the true spirit of Christmas, but I’m also a believer in miracles. And what better time for miracles than during this most sacred of