Month: December 2013

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Dec 31, 2013

How to head into the New Year

The lights glow color, shed joy nestled among the needles on the tree in the corner. The boys are asleep, The Mister’s at the office, and it’s just The Friend

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Dec 24, 2013

Seek the Child, light of the world

Standing there, I see it. At the end of the checkout lane, two rows of heartbreak stretch long across a bulletin board. Silent, I take it in. On every sheet,

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Dec 19, 2013

He comes, Jesus does, for the messy

I’d had to smile. On a day that went to the wrong place in a hand basket, he’d come home, spreading sun, grinning cheer. “How’d it go?” I’d ask him,

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Dec 17, 2013

Mother’s wish list includes two front teeth, fear of the Lord and peace on earth

And isn’t that about it? “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.” Yes, that’s just about it, but not quite. What I’d like, actually, is for those

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Dec 10, 2013

Rejoice in the love, sacrifice of God at Christmas

It wasn’t meant to be this way. On a starry night those centuries ago when Heaven slipped, squalling, onto hay, it was silent. No impeccable nursery in coordinating colors. No

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Dec 09, 2013

I know who I am (I am His)

Mouth open, I gaze in wonder at the display. Traffic rushes past, horns honk, and a bellhop in a long gray coat tweets his whistle to snag a taxi cab

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Dec 05, 2013

Valley of Trouble, Door of Hope

Today is Monday, tomorrow’s Tuesday, and I’m thinking of T’s. I’m mulling over things that tickle my gizzard and things that don’t and what do you do with those? I’ll

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Dec 03, 2013

Rodents not welcome on The Three, unlucky couple dispatched

For crying out loud. Can’t we go one winter without a visitation? Just one? Living in an old farmhouse, this is as likely as a Kennedy turning Republican or Mr.

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Dec 02, 2013

When your power is out

We’d picked up a work-out DVD, his father and I, at the recommendation of a friend. Fair-weather runner that I am, I was ready to move it indoors. And with

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