The evening hours have been times of solitude for me. With night falling earlier, I go home ready to hybernate and turn on a Christmas "feel good" movie Hallmark recently aired "Once Upon a Christmas" and "Twice Upon a Christmas". Aside from the fact that I like John Dye because of his Touched by an Angel affiliation, I liked watching it, though I must confess I did fall asleep.

Kristen, played by Kathy Ireland, is an immortal who is the daughter of Santa Claus. She gives up her immortality to live with a family who had been touched by grief in the death of the wife and mother. In doing so, Kristen also loses all memory of her previous identity.

As it so happens, Kristen has a sister (Rudolfa) who is rather evil and manipulative. With Kristen out of the way, Rudolfa concocts a scheme for selling off pieces of the North Pole. She also includes momentoes from Kristen's childhood. The kids Kristen cares for see the advertisements and order "Pieces of the Pole". What is interesting is that the pieces they receive actually serve to help Kristen retrieve her memory.

The thought occurred to me that this is so often what happens in the dance between good and evil. Evil takes its best shots, but God takes those very arrows and uses them for good in our life, often to accomplish the very opposite of what Evil or Satan was trying to achieve.