Tag: encouragement

Advent Wonder: Grace

I find myself ~ again ~ knees to floor and heart undone, wondering how so much escapes my efforts.  I am somehow still shocked, every now and then, by the struggle between flesh and spirit.  Regretting a temper quick to…

Ham + Cake + Paint = Christmas!

By Sherma-Jacqueline Felix It never fails, every time I smell paint, I immediately think of Christmas!  Whether it’s in July or February, if I smell paint, I immediately think, “CHRISTMAS!” That’s because when I was a little girl growing up in…

The Hope of the World

By Bonnie Fair You could pretty much say the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Yeah, those words are not the words that tend to capture Christmas and all the trimmings and niceties of the season. Those…

Shadows of Christmas

In twenty-two minutes, it will be Christmas again. I stand in the silvered, but tarnished half hidden light of a frozen moon, and wait expectantly.  In the full light of the day around half-past morning, my family will arrive, and…