This is a familiar scene for many people. It’s almost impossible to walk through the piles of gift wrapping, empty boxes, coffee cups, and spilled juice glasses… it’s a mess. Later after everyone has eaten there’s the pile of dirty dishes. You are exhausted from this Merry Christmas. Now that everyone has gone you sit …
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What Could It Be?
A gift comes with many questions. “What is it?” “Is it something I want?” “Did I give the person a gift of equal or greater value?", “What if I don’t want the gift?” and on and on. But gifts, those special gifts that touch your heart…the gift that will last a lifetime are directly connected …
“Do You Know?”
It’s the question that stirs anxiety. It’s the “in between time” of the doctor saying, “it could be…” and the doctor saying days later, “the test reveals….” It’s the time delay between taking the test and when the scores are posted. It’s the not-knowing. Our todays are full of unknowns. But are they? Think about …
Today’s God School Christmas Key Word Is, “Ponder”
Google tells us, “To ponder means to think about something very carefully and deeply, often for a significant amount of time, weighing it in your mind as if it had weight, like considering options for a decision or reflecting on life's big questions. It's a more intense form of thinking than just "thinking about it," …
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Christmas Memories…
To some these are “just” Tupperware containers but to me, they hold precious memories of past Christmas seasons. Before Thanksgiving mother would begin her annual candy & cookie production. In the large round container, she would have layers of fudge separated by sheets of wax paper. Each piece was about 1 ½ “ thick and …
How Much Can You Carry?
Early spring always brought trailers loaded with seed and fertilizer. Hopefully, the trucks arrived in the cool of the morning We didn’t have forklifts to unload the truck; we had Robert and the other men at the farm. I liked the seed delivery better because of the smaller 30-pound bags. Fertilizer came in 65- & …
Needs Or Wants
Saturday, we celebrated our family Thanksgiving with incredible food, laughter, family pictures, and conversations about Christmas. I was sitting beside our 8-year-old granddaughter as she searched Amazon on Meme’s phone for her Christmas wish list. Not much has changed in 70 years except when I was her age, we used the Sears catalog. We would …
Christmas…The Gift?
I remember as a boy watching my parents, aunts & uncles stress all summer over, “What do we get mother (my grandma)?” I remember one Christmas at her house. Her tree was simple. I remember the Christmas candy in the crystal candy dish… same ribbon candy, each piece stuck in the same place, year after …
“For Unto Us A Child Is Born, Unto Us A Son Is Given” Isaiah 9:6
So many things cannot be described in words. This is one of many pictures I call “God Art.” It was taken from space by the Hubble Space Telescope. We get so wrapped up in the insignificance we don’t see the magnificence of His Creation… but thousands of years ago kings, from distant lands, acted upon …
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With God, “Nothing-Just-Happens!” – Christmas
There is no one like Jesus. Many religions proclaim an authority figure, a god-like person, but none like Jesus. God Almighty spoke prophecies through multiple people over thousands of years, foretelling the birth, life & death of Jesus. This can only be described as miraculous. Before God performed the countless miracles, He told us in …
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