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After (Matt. 2:1-12) After you find the One for whom you wait, after you are overwhelmed with joy and kneel to kiss holy ground, you might also find yourself returning home by another road. The ways you once walked no longer appeal. And though the way is...
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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. – Carl Sandburg // In the long, dark winter evenings, the older kids and I read our way through the Chronicles of Narnia. In them Aslan, the...
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(#SmallWonder friends, this post is late! My apologies. We will be taking a break from linking up next Monday (12/28) and I’ll see you back here again January 4th.) I tried to make Christmas cookies twice this December. The first was a batch of...
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Legend claims at midnight Christmas Eve animals received the gift of speech, but I imagine it was the other way around that first starlight night. Animals didn’t gain but humans lost, for once, their words....
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He was a dead ringer for the kid from A Christmas Story. A short, chubby boy with an overgrown buzz cut and thick, dark rimmed glasses. Dressed in navy sweats from head to toe, he ran back and forth along the edge of the playground, arms pumping, breath...
