Why the First Christmas Star in 800 Years? (And How To Be a Star in a Hard Year)
On the darkest day of a very dark year, Farm Girl finds this carved little star left out for her next to a steaming cup of coffee with her favorite…
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On the darkest day of a very dark year, Farm Girl finds this carved little star left out for her next to a steaming cup of coffee with her favorite…
When you don’t know what to do, Hope is always what you do.
S ure, you can go straight ahead & light the Peace candle, but it can end up being mighty hard some days to scrounge up much peace when you’ve wrecked good…
I think of that later, how his hands look like they are worn with peace, the way he’s won a good life by forging peace no matter the heat of…
We follow more than words on a page: we follow a Person who stays at our side.
The coming of Christ was right through families of messed-up monarchs and battling brothers, through affairs and adultery and more than a feud or two, through skeletons in closets and cheaters at tables.
Christmas is the end of division. Christmas is the beginning of the end of all suffering.
Advent is waiting for the One true Light — otherwise, what we proclaim is light is actually dark, and that is a weight no soul can bear.
Nothing wonderful happens in our lives without wonder. Wonder makes this a wonderful life. Wonder nurtures wisdom.
Practicing participation and anticipation is how we practice Advent.
For the nations — and the next generation — to seek Him — this generation can seek nothing less.
Christ comes right to your Christmas tree and looks at your family tree and says, “I am your God, and I am one of you, and I’ll be the Gift, and I’ll take you. Take Me?”