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And that’s a wrap
y husband and I were doing some last-minute cleaning for the holiday when I said, “Didn’t we just put up this Christmas tree?” He responded, “Wasn’t it just Halloween!” For the two of us, 2023 was a blur of changes. We are looking forward to a...
The gift Jesus gave his mom
esus didn’t celebrate Christmas, and neither did the early Christians. Jesus wasn’t born in the winter either. There are several theories as to why we celebrate Christmas on December 25, but the most common belief dates the holiday back to the...
Bethlehem today
ary and Joseph probably traveled about a week to reach Bethlehem in time for the census. Mary, in her ninth month of pregnancy, would have needed to rest often while making the ninety-mile journey. Today, a war is raging about forty-five miles from...
Wishing you a Charlie Brown Christmas
here are very few things on television today that I watched as a kid. I was a second-grader in 1965, the year A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted. I have probably watched the thirty-minute cartoon almost every year since. When my boys were little, we...
Scheduling Christmas with God
’m not sure I ever told you all this, but I do most of my writing in the early hours of the day. I’ve always been an early riser and during the Christmas season that is especially true. I even have the timer on the Christmas tree set to come on...
Thank you, Lord
want to begin this blog post by wishing all of you a blessed Thanksgiving. I hope the day is filled with all your favorite things! We have so much to be thankful for in our lives because of the Lord’s great love for us. Before the “busy” For...
Why complain when we can proclaim?
s I sit in the utter stillness of my uncluttered, now-clean home, I realize how quickly I am missing the chaos of my four grandchildren racing through it. We had all four for a few days of their spring break and it was a crazy, exhausting,...
Realigning our faith
hate it when I make a quick U-turn and hit the curb with my front tire. In that moment several thoughts fly through my mind: Why didn’t I just wait for the arrow? Why didn’t I gauge the distance more accurately? Why didn’t I just take a different...
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