Echols: A Christmas column that isn’t tinsel and twinkles
“Echols: God is not blind. He sees us living life in all these murky shadows and he has compassion on us, and his compassion looks like light.” (Courtesy Candace Echols)
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
“Today’s column is about the ways the evil of this world threatens humanity, both through our own choices, and through the spiritual forces in and at work around us. Which is exactly the reason for Christmas.”
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