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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...
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Photo Source: Picture from: B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net (cc by-nc-nd) O that you would tear open the heavens and come down . . . Isaiah 64:1 Some mornings the mountains disappear completely, a great wall of white cutting the distance between presence and...
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(Our truck isn’t nearly this old, but some days it feels like it . . . ) See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is...
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Half-awake, deep under a layer of blankets, I hear him cry out in his dark, cold room at the end of the hall. “Ya-Yuh? Ya-yuh!” he calls, pausing to wait for his brother’s reply. Answering silence is followed by thump, patter, then the squeak of his...
