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Every Good & Perfect Gift

Gone are the days of the big, glossy catalogs which came in the mail before Thanksgiving to spark a child’s longing for Christmas gifts. Hours could be spent pouring over each page and photo. Discussion would be had among siblings as to the fun each game and toy...

We Spend Ourselves

Her name was Priscilla, the wife of Aquilla. They were tent-makers by profession. “Paul lived and worked with them, for they were tentmakers just as he was.” (Acts 18:3, NLT) For a while, Paul stayed with them because he was a tent-maker as well In the time he was...

Wise Men Still Seek Him

There are so many individuals involved in the powerful events in Christ’s arrival to earth. The time of Advent is needed for us to reflect and remember how the arrival of the Babe came to be. For days, the wise men have been in the forefront of my thoughts. We...

The Greatest Gift

It’s the last week of the Advent season. I sit in the early morning listening to the pelting rain, pulling my thoughts together on what may yet need to be done. There’s still presents to wrap, some cookies to bake, and food shopping to be done. Oh, and the...

In The Orchestra Of Life

“Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous – how well I know it.” (Psalm 139:14, NLT) “Antonio Stradivari was a seventeenth-century violin maker whose name in its Latin form, Stradivarius, has become...