Archive for December 2022
When the Christchild Comes for You
With Christmas only a few days away, the emotions are building, the memories invading, and the anticipation fluctuating somewhere between tentative dread and utter delight. What will Christmas be like this year? Will extended family all be standing on the porch for the Christmas dinner gathering when a positive C-test sends everyone home (this happened…
Read MoreNothing Can Keep Christmas from Coming
There will be Christmas this year. Can’t you sense it? Despite outward circumstances, (and having to learn a new word – tripledemic) there is also something in the air, the music, the stars in the dark sky, the delicious smells, the flickering firelight, the silence even. Friend, Christmas will come alright. Because Christ came in…
Read MoreThe God Who Transforms “Mess” into “Messiah”
Christmas is coming and your house is a mess. Maybe even your whole life feels like a mess right about now. Honey, you are so not alone! George was a mess. One night in 1741, as this bent old man shuffled listlessly down a dark London street. he was starting out on one of the…
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