A Goudge Christmas!

Short Stories of Faith at Christmas

The Reward of Faith by Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth wrote so many short stories for Christmas time, that it would be almost impossible to read them all in December. It was one of the hardest short story collections for me to find and is now out of print. The first short story entitled The Reward of Faith gives this collection its name. It is the story about a little boy named Pierre who walks through the snow to care for his animals during a storm, and contains all of the charm that we find in Goudge’s Island Magic.

Pierre helping the animals on Christmas Eve in The Reward of Faith short story.

“Many years ago a little boy called Pierre lived in a village of the French Alps, where in winter the nights are long and bitter cold, with great lights wheeling in the sky, and the days are short and lovely and crystal clear, with blue shadows on the snow and the tang of the pinewoods crisp and pungent in the still air…”}

❄️ Elizabeth Goudge, The Reward of Faith

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