Dearest You . . . Thought I’d come alongside you to welcome in a year of fresh starts together. I have an old Bible and a new journal so I’m ready. But let’s not fade into Christmas-past mode just yet – it’s the Christmas-keeping that will get us through the next 365. It’s the old story that never gets old and one that we … [Read more...]
Finding Light
Christmas lights are a beautiful remembrance of Christ’s light illuminating the world during the Advent season. Lights and Christmas seem to go together. I love the glow in the windows and towns streets, a warm reminder that something is different about --- now. Lights can take me to the manger in a minute. And every year I … [Read more...]
The Middle of Advent
In preparation for Christmas, we’re in the middle of the now and the not yet - middle of Advent, the four-week season of remembering and celebrating the coming of Jesus to earth. In between the hope and peace and the joy and love ~ our Advent assurance. The month of December seems to come and go more quickly every year. So how … [Read more...]
How Will It Be?
Before Christmas was, Christmas was going to be. The sacred earthiness of a heavenly happening took place through people on a midnight clear -- to the ordinary. The all too familiar story told through the ages can never be overtold, because somehow we miss most of it. When we step into the story for ourselves, a flannelgraph … [Read more...]
Reclaim Awe
How often we connect the word awesome to just the ordinary. It belongs to the extraordinary. The word actually means, “inspires an overwhelming feeling of reverence or fear” but somehow it has been reduced to meaning “very cool.” The Word became flesh – if there was ever an awesome event, this is it. Wonder and … [Read more...]