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Have you been given a tough assignment this Christmas? Have you been given an impossible situation, an assignment that you did not bargain for? Sometimes maybe our worst Christmas could be our best. When we have come through the darkest night, we see the true light of Christmas.

David Roper tells about growing up in the cedar breaks west of Duncanville, Texas, in a house that his dad built. He slept on the porch year around – great in the summer but cold in the winter. The porch had canvas screens that rolled down to keep some of the cold out. David would dash from the warm house and leap into...