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Today, we received this powerful Christmas Card message from friends, Amick & Cassie Byram, that we share without comment…

“Then in despair I bowed my head;
‘There is no peace on earth,’ I said.
“For hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth good will to men.”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: “God is not dead, nor doth he sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882