Worship Immanuel

by | Dec 20, 2021 | Devotional, Holiday, Inspiration, Thoughts

I can only imagine what it’s like to walk where Jesus walked or to visit Bethlehem, where Scripture records that He was born over two millennia ago. Today, books, magazines, movies, television and social media take us there virtually, but to be there in person...

CHRISTMAS BELLS

by | Dec 14, 2020 | Devotional, Holiday, Inspiration, Thoughts

CHRISTMAS BELLS When you think of bells at Christmastime, what comes to mind? Jingle bells? Sleigh bells? Church bells? Hand bells? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” during a time of deep personal and national turmoil. The...

Christmas Joy

by | Dec 18, 2019 | Devotional, Holiday, Inspiration

Last weekend proved to be a challenging one for us. Our plans for Saturday were quickly changed when my husband discovered a broken water pipe beneath our mobile home. Do you know how hard it is to find a plumber who will come to your house on a Saturday, even for an...

Christmas Advent Tradition

by | Dec 3, 2019 | Commemoration, Holiday, Inspiration

What traditions or activities during Advent add meaning to your celebration of Christ’s birth? The church in which I grew up did not celebrate the season of Advent. We had the Sunday school Christmas play, the choir cantata, and Sunday school lessons and sermons...

It’s Easy to Forget

by | May 30, 2019 | History, Holiday, Inspiration

Unless I have  a personal reason to remember a person or an event, it’s easy to forget. People and events from the past are often crowded out in my mind by life now. With each generation, details of history are dropped from history books to be replaced by more...