Things I Learned in December
Yesterday, I saw a challenge given my Emily to list 15 things you learned in December. I scrolled past the challenge ignoring it. But in the night when thoughts are free to have their way, and God speaks to the spirit of a woman without the soul trying to translate...
When You Wonder If God Sees You
It is so easy for each of us to believe that when times are difficult, when we feel all alone that God is missing in action, and we wonder if God sees you. We know with our head that he is here, we know what scripture says about His presence, but it doesn’t feel like...
A Time for New Birth ~ Elizabeth Marshall
Christmas is a time for focusing on new Birth, the birth of a King. Our savior. Jesus Christ. Immanuel. The Redeemer. God Made Flesh, Incarnate Deity. So when babies are born into our own earthly families in December, we mothers feel like there is something extra-holy...
Our Hospital Christmas ~ Melanie Gillchrist
We sit at our well-worn dining room table. In our cozy house with a tin roof. Friends often said it felt like a retreat house. It rang true to my soul; the rhythm of a Seattle rain could lull and calm even the most distracted hearts. This December night, the sounds of...
The Nativity Story~Amy Breitmann
The Nativity Story We stumbled upon the manger scene that December night. It was a live nativity in front of a small church. I was on the way home from a Christmas party with my two children, nine and six, who had jumped and played and eaten too much pizza,...
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