Love says I Am with you

Advent 2025 is past. Christmas is here. The time of waiting is over. Itโ€™s time to rejoice in His arrival. Jesus, God with skin on, and born to a humble blue collar family, came to carve the way out of death. Rejoice. He is Love. And this is how He defines His love. โ€œGreater love … Continue reading Love says I Am with you

Simply Advent: Light

Itโ€™s Advent season, and weโ€™re beginning on the first day of December this year. What ideas about the Christmas season have you been pondering? I am pondering common threads, or themes, that repeat throughout the entirety of the Bible. Lately, Iโ€™ve been reading scriptures from different books of the Bible. Isaiah, who prophesied the coming … Continue reading Simply Advent: Light

See the Light: Simply Advent

โ€œThe people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.โ€โ€ญโ€ญIsaiahโ€ฌ โ€ญ9โ€ฌ:โ€ญ2โ€ฌ โ€ญNLTโ€ฌโ€ฌ What do you see today? Where is your light? To what or where are you looking for hope? What do you believe you must have to feel joy? … Continue reading See the Light: Simply Advent

Love Sees the Face of Hope

And rejoices in Godโ€™s unfailing goodness! Two of the people I love to read about at Christmas are people I consider as some of the unsung heroes. They are the backstage persevering servants of God who prayed to get to see the fulfillment of Godโ€™s promised Messiah. They were born and called of God to … Continue reading Love Sees the Face of Hope

Joy Desires To Be Voiced

Have you ever felt so elated, so excited over a bit of good news that you couldnโ€™t wait to tell someone? Maybe you think that you will just share with your bestie and no one else, but then another friend comes along and you just canโ€™t stop yourself from sharing the good news! And so … Continue reading Joy Desires To Be Voiced

I Wonder Whatโ€™s Been Stored

โ€All who heard the shepherdsโ€™ story were astonished, but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.โ€œโ€ญโ€ญLukeโ€ฌ โ€ญ2โ€ฌ:โ€ญ18โ€ฌ-โ€ญ19โ€ฌ โ€ญNLTโ€ฌโ€ฌ I think because itโ€™s the Christmas season and so many of us are writing about Advent scriptures and themes, I have pondered longer this year on the idea of Mary storing … Continue reading I Wonder Whatโ€™s Been Stored

Peace Will Be Still

It was a fairly quiet night. All was fairly calm, but the lights were dimmed down in the cabin. Only my one reading light shone bright. My dear man and I were flying from Atlanta through Denver on our way home, and the plane was packed. We each had been assigned the middle seat two … Continue reading Peace Will Be Still