the disADVENTage of being good.
The birth story of Jesus has so many elements that are hard to believe. The events that unfold are difficult …
Category Archives: Christmas
The Great Part about the Good Part.
Did the angels that appeared to the shepherds exaggerate when they said it was good news of great joy for …
adVENTING about the Holidays
This is the time of year many of us wander the malls for hours searching for the perfect gift for …
Search the sky for stars and follow them wherever they lead, but not at the expense of looking down. Those who only look up will never find the stable.
Christmas must seem like such a peculiar holiday. A story surrounding what from the outset seems like devastation. From the …
Putting Christmas back in the Basement.
Christmas is over, in the technical sense. What lies ahead is the excitement of discovering new space when the tree …
Christmas | an inconvenient grace
Whispers of peppermint breath, Billowing clouds of speech, This time in the year, This ignoring of fear, It means …
God can be inconvenient, but the best things in life usually are.
There are a few times in life where everything changes in an instant. It seems that things become irreversible, you …
This is more than a Fable in a Stable, New blog post
Image found at raykliu.wordpress.com And there were shepherds. I love these four words. And there were shepherds watching their sheep …
When life seems more Bovine than Divine
Consider the sheep herders that Luke writes about in his infancy narrative. These farmers defending their sheep from the darkness …
Licking the Wisemen and finding Frodo in my nativity set
Your perspective of the Nativity creche in your window changes depending on where you stand. Children at eye level have …
