Is your life desperate right now and does that desperation roll over into your holiday celebrations? What does your desperation look like? Is it floods, accidents, starvation, life threats, financial…
Published December 13th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
Are you one of those who only show up in church for Christmas and Easter? Do you feel disconnected from your church, your faith? It might be because you haven’t…
Published December 12th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
Over the years I’ve been on nearly every committee in my church but suddenly I felt I wasn’t doing enough or being enough, praying enough …I felt totally disconnected. Just…
Published December 11th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
Have you ever lost yourself? It’s a scary place to be. I floundered after my husband Ron died, and it’s taken me quite a while to find myself again. Mentally…
Published December 10th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
Prince Albert (Victoria’s husband) first brought the Christmas tree tradition to the UK and it lived a simple life until the 1930’s when a toilet brush company made the first…
Published December 9th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
The word bound, means more than tied up. It also means: 1- Something expected to happen because custom, experience, or common sense dictates it 2-Being obliged to do something or…
Published December 8th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
A manger is an eating trough, a feeding place so to speak. And it would have been layered with hay to make the baby Jesus more comfortable. What do we…
Published December 7th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
Is the manger scene more than we realize? And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no…
Published December 6th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
What flies at Christmas? Well, it might be you, on the way to friends or family for the holidays. Angels and reindeer also come to mind and unfortunately in our…
Published December 5th, 2017 by Brenda Wood
After finding out all that stuff about birds I wanted to find out more about the things we use to symbolize Christmas. Some of them are obvious, like the angels…
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