“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”
—Isaiah 9:2
My mother didn’t speak of the luminaries until recently, some fifty years after she first saw them lining Collinwood Street in Opelika, Alabama. The paper bags, soft and glowing, like tiny miracles set against the December dark, left an impression she carried for the rest of her life.
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