by Janet Denison | Dec 26, 2023 | Blog
My 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 much calmer 2024....
by Janet Denison | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Jesus 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 third century. The...
by Janet Denison | Dec 12, 2023 | Blog
Mary 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 the small city of...
by Janet Denison | Dec 5, 2023 | Blog
There 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 sat together as a...
by Janet Denison | Nov 28, 2023 | Blog
I’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 twice a day, at 5 a.m....
by Janet Denison | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog, Blog
I 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 most of us, this blog...
