Emily Malbone Morgan (1862-1937) | Celebrated February 25 in the Episcopal Church’s liturgical calendar. If you read between the lines of letters and papers that some New Englanders wrote after the Civil War, you pick up a sense of dis-ease. The

God of light and love, we give you thanks for sending us stars to guide our journey and dream-angels to whisper your voice to us when evil tries to turn us from compassion and hope.

Dear Lord, prepare our hearts this season for the coming of the Christ Child. Help us to put aside our own desires for things we don’t need, To look for the needs of others around us and give a child