A few weeks ago, we had our annual Christmas ladies’ meeting at our church. Each year our planning committee chooses a theme, and this year’s theme was “Christmas Treasures.” A friend and I collaborated to decorate for the event…and we had so much fun doing it! The resulting primitive home scene was so lovely- mostly… Read More Old Fashioned Christmas Decor Gallery
Just now joining me? Read Part One of this story here. Christmas Day dawned… and there was a tiny candy cane on my breakfast tray. It was tied with a strand of red and green curling ribbon. And we began another long day of sickness and no answers. On Christmas night the vein that my… Read More Christmas In The Hospital (Part 2)
Ravenous hunger. Insatiable thirst. A world grasping headlong and heedlessly for the unsatisfying sustenance it so deceitfully offers to itself. Starving for the Bread of Life. A starving world- this is the world to which Jesus came. Yet people were not hungry for Him. A waiting world- this is the world to which Jesus came.… Read More Christmas Vignettes: A Manger For The Bread of Life
December 22, 2005 found me staring at a ceiling (again). In a hospital (again). I had not yet been diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum, but this was my second stay in the hospital in just a few weeks’ time. This was not the way I had envisioned our first Christmas as a married couple. We had… Read More Christmas In The Hospital (Part 1)
This past Tuesday night my husband and I traveled to St. John, NB, where we ministered at a senior’s banquet. Although at first we seemed like misfits in a sea of sweet gray and white-haired men and ladies, we soon felt at ease with a great group of people. We enjoyed a fabulous candlelit meal,… Read More Christmas Vignettes: The Irony of a Stable Birth
