In my column, I try to highlight important areas of agriculture and how they affect our daily lives.

In my column, I try to highlight important areas of agriculture and how they affect our daily lives.

Today, I would like to share a true story that happened to me many years ago. I trust this story, which I bring each year at this time, will add a special meaning to your Christmas celebration.

It was Christmas Eve 1972.

Four good friends and I were on a mission.

We had decided that after our Christmas Eve service at Victoria Avenue United Church in Chatham, we would go in search of the star of Bethlehem.

We left Chatham into the stillness and darkness of Christmas Eve. The silhouette of our car flashed across the roads and ditches of the countryside as the hours passed.

We travelled many kilometres that night, just as the wise men did following this same........

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