On the fourth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…four gospels! We have four accounts of Jesus’ earthly life. Sometimes they match up exactly and other times seem very different. Eye-witness accounts are that way. We remember different details, see things from a unique vantage point. Each of Read more…
On the third day of Christmas my True Love gave to me… three witnesses. As a follower of Jesus, I am ever in process…sometimes I look more like Jesus and sometimes much less. It is in those “less” times that I have doubts and questions about whether I am truly Read more…
On the second day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…two births! If you are reading this, you have been born once. You have 23 sets of chromosomes. You are a human. In coming to earth as a human, Jesus brought us the gift of second birth. All who Read more…
This day of celebration can be so obscured by the food and the gift-giving that we miss the important, far-reaching gifts brought by the One who truly loves us. On each of the next twelve days, I will be posting a short meditation on what our Bridegroom has brought us Read more…
It all started with some bad housekeeping… I had bought some sweet potatoes that somehow never made it to the table. Instead they languished in the cupboard, waiting to be used, enjoyed for the purpose for which they were grown. The days grew longer, and the sweet orange roots began Read more…
Christmas is coming. I know when that’s happening, and I am not ready! I know what is expected; I know what I want to have done; and I know how few days I have left. Yet here I am, unprepared. Advent! The Bridegroom comes! Jesus said even He did not Read more…
Moses had led the nation of Israel through forty summers of blistering heat and brutal thunderstorms. He longed for his last words to them to be like the gentle rains of winter and the trickling dews of spring. Oh, how we love the tender sprouts of spring here in the Read more…
Explore with me what Jesus meant when He said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” Hebrews tells us that He is the radiance of God’s glory, the exact representation of His nature. He is the image of the invisible God, according to Colossians. John tells us: “No Read more…
(Please accept my apologies for this extra post. This will not happen often.) As a small child, I listened while Captain Kangaroo (Go ahead: Google it!) read to us the Caldecott Medal-winning book, Stone Soup. This wonderful tale gently reminds us that sometimes what is required to meet an overwhelming Read more…
All I said was one word. Her name. All the syllables of it. Sharply. She crumpled into tears. I had no good reason to speak so sharply. What she had done was not rebellious or unkind, not intended to offend. It was just an error…a mistake. What boiled over and Read more…