This is a follow up to yesterday's Karen's Korner and what happened to George Washington and his troops on Christmas Day; what part it played in the history of America and establishing our country.

Move ahead two hundred years and the fight to save America during World War II. My dad, Stanley Zirbel, was part of U.S. Army. He and some of his military friends were fighting in the Battle of Bulge.

He would tell about what happened to them on Christmas Day in 1944. There was a gentle snowfall overnight. Troops were sleeping in tents on the battlefield. When they woke up that morning, there were boot prints all around their tents. No U.S. soldiers had been awake. They figured it had to be Germans. Why they had not been captured or worse, no one knew! Was it because it was Christmas Day?

God has protected the United States - when we were being formed as a nation; 80 years ago (celebrating our country's victory in 1945), and today!

Thank You, God, 
for being part of our lives - 
Now
And Always!
Thank You, Jesus,
for coming to earth
and changing everything -
Now
And Always!
Amen.