Christmas is all About Second Chances

what our favorite stories teach us about the incarnation

“Marley was dead, to begin with.”

So begins Charles Dickens’ beloved novella, A Christmas Carol.

“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"

"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

By the time Christmas Morning …