Christmas
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moreHow to Slow Down Christmas
On Thursday, December 06 th, 2012Power plays and big takeovers and loud commercials. That’s the way the world turns and Wall Street rolls. But God, when He comes, He shows up in this fetal ball. Just this seed unfurling, impossible power contained in the small. The beginning of December, that is what I set out on the counter: just a bowl of seeds. ...
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moreThe Christmas Miracle He will Not Withhold From You
On Wednesday, December 05 th, 2012I don’t really want to think about what you’d find if you sliced my heart right open. Hope’s at the front of the church singing like an ascension, like a heart could take to heaven – or least to the heights of St John’s Church of the Evangelist. My back’s up against the b...
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moreThe Grateful Christmas Project: 7 Ways to have more Grateful Kids this Christmas
On Monday, December 03 rd, 2012I‘m thinking it’s almost a dozen years now, nothing under the Christmas tree here. Strange, the way children teach men. The whole crazy, unexpected thing, it started at bedtime one year, I do remember that. Smoothing back hair, kissing foreheads. I had gifts to wrap. So, I pulled up the blankets. Prayers. And then, when I’m at the door, one h...
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moreWhen You’re Looking for a Christmas Miracle {Pt. 1}
On Friday, November 30 th, 2012They say that the most glorious mess is the foot of the tree on Christmas Day. But there are frank people who will just straight out tell you that the whole thing can be a bit of a mess. The kids’ uncle lies in a hospital bed waiting for a surgeon to cut into his chest wall and slice a tumor out of th...
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moreFree Family Advent Christmas Devotional with Jesse Tree Ornaments
On Thursday, November 29 th, 2012When we haul a tree in the front door and untangle the lights on the darkest days of the year and look hard, keeping looking hard, for the star for the very top — I think I know what I want for Christmas. I don’t want a Christmas that you can buy. I don’t want a Christmas...
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more5 Fab Things For a BRIGHT Friday {Friday@the Farm}
On Friday, November 23 rd, 20125 Fabulous Things … that are sort of like when pigs fly! Or — when the Farmer about kisses a cow! Happiness for a Bright Friday: 1. Healthy Fudge? In the Slowcooker? 5 ingredients? Why, yes please! Perfect and easy family sweet for the weekend! 2. All together now: Free Christmas Music? 15 Way...
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moreFinding The Perfect Gift {Free Holiday Printable}
On Thursday, November 22 nd, 2012…. (excerpt) But now had arrived and unwrapped like a gift — The embrace at the door, the loud laughter in the twilight greying, the clock ticking down after the still — all unearned — her here at all. So after the turkey and Aunt Eileen’s pie, she’d written it down and taped it up, to remember when everything would spin fast fo...
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moreWhen What You Really Need is an Epiphany
On Friday, January 06 th, 2012The snow lights with day. Everything alight, straight across the fields. Today’s epiphany and I think I’m having one of my own. Epiphany, always January 6th, the day when we reflect on the three wise men kneeling before the Christ-Lord, Lord of heaven and earth, Christ revealing His divinity under the star in the...
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morewhy you can have the most hope the day after Christmas
On Monday, December 26 th, 2011I milked a sow on Christmas night and her white ran warm. It was after the packages for the neighbors were wrapped up and walked over across the snowy fields. After the baking and the eating and the gathering and the candles and the singing and the Scripture and the praying. After the feast for the coming of our Salvation. After the last of the relatives slipped home in the dar...
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moreweekends are for celebrating
On Saturday, December 24 th, 2011Pause the music player just above the date? If reading in a reader, click here to view the Christmas video? M ay all your wanderings this weekend, kindest friends …. simply, fully, completely — celebrate Christ. ”He was poor, that he might make us rich. He was born of a virgin that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that he might give us His Spirit. He ...
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moreWhat He Really Wants You to Remember this Christmas
On Friday, December 23 rd, 2011She hands me this two-inch Christmas tree. A Christmas tree made of salt-dough, painted and varnished. She gives it to me right at the beginning, right when we meet. A story carried back from Ecuador…. To Read: What He Really Wan...
