Hope for the Holidays: A Celebration of Change

‘Gratitude,’ G.K. Chesterton once wrote, ‘is happiness doubled by wonder.’ Engaging that sense of wonder often means lifting our eyes from the cold ground to the stars.

Bob Cratchit carrying Tiny Tim on his shoulders. A scene from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, circa 1844. Illustration by Fred Barnard Hulton Archive/Getty Images

All of us know the plot and many of the characters in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.”

We’ve either read the novel or we’ve seen one of the more than two dozen movies made about this classic. Ebenezer Scrooge, the mean-spirited man of business, gave us “Bah Humbug,” and Scrooge’s name itself has become a part of the English language.