Home for Christmas

My mother modeling silk, Japanese pajamas
Christmas 1945

"May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I fail to remember you, if I don't make Jerusalem my greatest joy." (Psalm 137:6)

In Psalm 137, the Jewish captives wept along the riverbanks of Babylon, hung their harps on willow branches, and refused to sing because their broken hearts longed for home - Jerusalem.

World War II ended May 8, 1945, and Daddy spent that December in Japan with the U.S. occupation troops. For Christmas, he mailed Mother beautiful, Japanese pajamas. Fifty years later, she still cried every time she heard the Bing Crosby song...

I'll be home for Christmas

You can plan on me

Please have snow and mistletoe

And presents on the tree

Christmas Eve'll find me

Where the love light gleams

I'll be home for Christmas

If only in my dreams.

Beloved, pray for folks around the world who this year will come home for Christmas only in their dreams; and if you're home, tell the Lord Jesus, "Thank You!"