Category Archives: Christmas themed

On Christmas at Christmas: “Metamorphosis” (a Poem)

Metamorphosis (A Response to Nabokov’s short story, “Christmas”* from my free e-chapbook**) Testing air for breath and flight, man and moth emerge, both lately from the Crafter’s hand, each sheltered while He worked. A sinew here a heartbeat there, in … Continue reading

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From Russia with Hope: Christmas in July (Redux)

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila It seems that here we are, again, in another distressing July (2023) in need of the hope of December, so I offer this annual post of encouragement–such a powerful, humble little story with great and lasting import … Continue reading

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Another Christmas re-gift, 2022: Once Again to Nabokov

  Phyllis Beveridge Nissila 2012…2022  This post first appeared back in 2012, and has been featured several times since, each time for a new reason [and a more fearful season]  in an old story of evil versus good, fear versus … Continue reading

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A Stack of Seven Fun and Heart-Warming Stories from Christmases Past Redux (and updated in such a time as 2022)

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila To lighten your spirits this holiday season, here is my gift to you: a “stack” of [humor-enriched] posts from Christmases past drawn from family stories.  Enjoy! SUCH A TIME AS 2022 The original introduction with the added … Continue reading

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“To Serve Man” (No, Not as in the Old Twilight Zone Episode) and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Old Twilight Zone Episode? See here if you don’t recall, or never knew of, this episode: “It’s a cook book!” They Also Serve Who Keep the Lights On Although it does SEEM like the Twilight Zone these … Continue reading

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A Little Christmas Present of Encouragements for Christmas, Present

Click on the title to open the e-chapbook. For the Workers Late in the Fields          Poems of Encouragement for Such a Time as This              

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Remnant (A Poem for Our Time and the Time to Come)

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings. (Proverbs 25:2) So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.      … Continue reading

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Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us… (Ephesians 1:4)  For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or … Continue reading

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That First Noel

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila   In the completeness  of time (just in time) He came one night squalling, hungry, swaddled, cradled– and they wondered who they held.

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Another Christmas re-gift: Once Again to Nabokov

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila 2020 This post first appeared back in 2012, and has been featured several times since, each time for a new reason in an old story of evil versus good, fear versus hope, bondage versus freedom, despair versus … Continue reading

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