In so many households, the light of Christmas is snuffed out soon after the presents have been unwrapped, the cookies eaten, the calendar purged of merriment, the last carols have been sung, and all the unresolved issues in the marriage and family return to usher in darkness. Jesus came as a Light of the World […]

Some gifts just keep on giving! That was my experience this week as I was searching for a pretty box that could be re-cycled for Aunt Jean’s new robe. (I’m a box saver.) I found the perfect Christmas box on the top shelf of my closet. But it was what was inside that absolutely wrapped […]

I’ve never argued with a Christmas Carol before. But that’s what I found myself doing last night. There I was at this perfectly lovely Advent gathering – the violin playing, the candles glowing, the ladies singing. I didn’t have to look at the familiar lyrics on the screen because I could sing them in my […]