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When Disappointment Is All You Can Unwrap This Christmas
I wrote this post last Christmas, but I sense it might be more relevant this year as we've navigated 2020. I've made some edits to the piece - but there's something that I can't alter: the unchanging hope that Christmas brings. May His hope be our anchor this season and always.
Maybe you’re done being merry. ...
When Disappointment Is All You Can Unwrap at Christmas
Maybe this Christmas you’re not feeling it.
You’re done being merry. You’re tired of faking holly and jolly. You couldn’t care less about goodwill to man.
Things have not panned out for you the way you’d hoped when January 2019 dawned. Situations that looked promising have now been dampened by the reality of the last almost 12 ...
It’s The Most Wonderful – And The Busiest – Time Of The Year (You Version Devotional)
I absolutely love all the buzz around Christmas. I love the carols and the cookies, the parties and the pies, the decorations and the desserts (and, yes, I know I included a lot of food in that line, but, hey, just being real here).
But, when I look at my calendar for the month, I'm a ...
Looking Afresh At An Old Story
Maybe you’ve played an angel or a shepherd, or, if you were one of the “chosen few,” you’ve pulled off a smiling Mary holding a swaddled doll. The Sunday School re-enactment of the Nativity is a part of every Christian kid’s growing rites.
Over the years, we’ve read – and re-read – the passages from the ...
Making Space – An Advent Devotional (YouVersion)
As the Christmas season begins, we usually find ourselves more stretched for time than the rest of the year. We get caught up in the frenzy – and forget to focus on what’s truly important. This devotional will help you clear the clutter so you can make more room for Christ this Christmas.
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A Whiff Of Christmas In Prague
Bundled up in wool hats, scarves, mittens, and about two kilos of extra weight in clothes (and admittedly a "few" added grams from the cheese we've been consuming) we wind our way through the woods behind the 12th-century Strahov monastery. I think of Robert Frost's famous lines, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep." Like ...
5 Fun Memories To Create With Your Kids This Christmas
“Have a holly jolly Christmas, It’s the best time of the year,” goes a song on the radio. Sometimes, though, with the hustle and the craziness that the season brings, it’s the most stressful time of the year too. Our lists are never ending and it’s impossible get the to-do’s crossed off as the kids ...
Empty Boxes
Growing up in the 90’s in India, I have many fond memories of Christmas. It was about carol singing into the wee hours of the morning. It was about platefuls of steaming biriyani and brightly coloured paper stars that hung outside homes. It was about homemade plum cake heavy with fruit soaked in alcohol that ...
Making Space – Advent Devotional
Christmas – along it being the most wonderful time of the year, it tends to be the busiest. This Christmas, let’s clear the clutter to make space for Christ. These Advent devotionals, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas, are a small way we can focus on what truly counts.
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