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As He spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old…  Zechariah, father to John the Baptist, a prophecy upon the birth of his child Prophecy of an event is most often not interpreted except through hindsight.  It’s easy knowing that Jesus did come to earth as prophecied to say “yeah, the Old Testament said he’d come, how can you be so dense” to all the people who didn’t believe.  Those poor Israelites, constantly feeling like they got the promise but not the action

It’s a quiet, calm morning here. Snow covers everything. Second pot of coffee is brewing. The boy child went to school without much trouble this morning (that’s not always a given). I’m here, at my desk, looking out on the glorious beauty of His world that surrounds me, in this place that we now live, a miracle from God that we’ve had this all provided for us. Life is good. I love our new adventure, new home, new school, the new possibilities of it all. I love our famil

The LORD is not slow about His Promise…  1 Peter 3:9 I live with a child whose ability to wait is non-existent.  Even though he’s older now, still, the challenges of his differently-formed brain making waiting for just about anything unbearable.  For everyone. The anticipation of Christmas is almost more than he can take. Any of us sometimes. Frankly though, I don’t like waiting either.  In the whole scheme of life, the waiting when things are uncertain can be a hard thing fo

About to light that first candle. Am I ready to fully embrace the #KingdomofGod has come near? Luke 21 makes it clear that following this Christ means giving all just like the widow, whose offering seemed small but was everything. Jesus goes on to teach in this chapter that life in Him isn’t all sunshine and good news. Life’s hard. There’s stuff to get scared about. There’s stuff happening folk, that makes it sometimes hard to believe that there’s any option but to live in th

This is the third week of Advent, the week to celebrate JOY!!! One thing that sometimes happens as we get ready to celebrate Jesus’ birth is we expect to be ~ and others expect us to be ~ happy all the time. But Joy? It’s not the same as happy. Joy is a deeper feeling created by knowing that God cares for us. That He leads us when we can’t find our way. And He gives us chance after chance to make things right with Him and with our neighbors. We rejoice because God is our dear

“This child should be here but her path went another way, to heaven instead of to earth.” I’m sitting here in the cold, hugging my babies to keep us warm. Our heater went out. Not a good thing in the winter in Canada. It is VERY cold! But hugging my babies, well, that’s the perk. I’m trying to soak it all in with them right now. A good friend, who has suffered a big loss this year, reminded me earlier to do that, to not let the regret get in the way of thankfulness. I’m tryin