If I Were at the Manger…

Christmas is almost here and I want to spend more time thinking about what it means before it’s all over and life rushes forward. I want to think with my words: to stop slow at the manger and breathe- and grasp something of what it means. So I want to try and do that inContinue reading “If I Were at the Manger…”

What Do You Really Want for Christmas?

What do you really want for Christmas? What do I really want for Christmas? A present? Something you’ve wanted wrapped up with a ribbon? We may or may not get those things wrapped up in a box for us on Christmas Day. But there’s one thing we can know for sure: God has given us a GiftContinue reading “What Do You Really Want for Christmas?”

When I feel Inadequate and Afraid…

I don’t know about you but I often seem to find myself going back to the same old familiar Bible passages in December. And God speaks to me through them. One of the things that has gone deep, again and again, is what the angel said to Mary. ‘Then the angel said to her, “Do notContinue reading “When I feel Inadequate and Afraid…”