Dominion – that’s the name of the game my husband and son brought home yesterday and consumed the rest of our day. It’s one of those strategy oriented, European looking games you can only get at specialty game shops or on the Internet or such. It requires a lot of set up and has a book full of instructions. Not… Read More
I had every intention of posting early this Christmas morning, but alas the celebration of the day kept me from it. Not a bad excuse I believe. When I have had a few moments today, on this glorious Christmas day, to reflect on what I might write on this our last day of our journey, I’ve thought about why we’ve… Read More
Can you believe we are almost there? Almost to Bethlehem where that little baby would quietly slip into the world that He created, clothed in flesh and humanity, bringing peace and light into a world of chaos and darkness. As we’ve journeyed toward Christmas for the past 14 days we’ve traveled all the way from Genesis to the gospels, trying… Read More
And then, 400 years later, God spoke again. By this time the Roman government had named Herod, a non-Jew, king of the Jews. He was busy rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem, not in anticipation of worhsipping the one true God there, but as a manipulation tactic to increase the Jews’ loyalty to him, a scheme that never really panned out…. Read More
This morning the silence in my house is golden. With two demanding dogs, two chatty teenagers, a husband who plans on doing “plumbing work” today, and multiple electronic gadgets that seem to pop on at a moment’s notice, silence is rare here, especially during the holidays. So I enjoyed it last night when everyone else was out of the house… Read More
Well it’s time to resume our journey to Bethlehem and we just have a few short days to get there. I do hope you had the opportunity this weekend to worship the baby who was born there in that stable. There is nothing better for us to do this Christmas in the way of celebration than to spend some time… Read More