Christmas Day is here for people all over the world, but life and its joy and tragedies doesn't hold still for Americans, or anyone, on that fact alone. In America, the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth, there is enough misery to go around for all. Although many are suffering the physical ailments brought on by debilitating disease and old age and seeing their deterioration and decline to a mere shadow of their former selves hurts their loved ones deeply, and there are many thousands of Americans suffering in poverty, or from homelessness, it is the plight of our children that concerns me most this season. Some may call it happenstance, but I like to think of it as God moving us to act when we come in contact with great spiritually minded people who have taken on a mission to help others. I had the opportunity to meet just such a wonderful person, Ruth Meyer, who lives in the Blackman Community of Rutherford County, TN., by way of a casual question in Walmart...(Read Full Article)