Our “mawkishness meter” went pretty high on this story, but we’re curmudgeons. It’s an effective, intimate story of devotion and faith. The two-part series was published on Christmas eve and morning. Manry says she and her editor, Scott North, imagined the story as a gift, delivered on Christmas Eve and opened the next day. The blog entries and song lyrics reinforce the meaning of pivotal events and enhance readers’ sense for the couple’s strong bond.
Read “The Light Within,” by Kaitlin Manry