I cannot hear. The quiet is so loud. It bangs and shutters and drowns out words that say, “Keep moving”, “Don’t stop serving”, “Love this one He put beside you”, even though few hear, few know the fullness of this journey. Then, He shows me this season of a manger. A baby, craddled quiet, humbly separated […]
It’s the elf’s fault. The one I finally caved too, at Target. The one I had been seeing on Instagram, but wasn’t sure I wanted to commit to… Daily. During Christmas. I mean, who has creative ideas to place some Elf on a Shelf, late at night, or early morning, when your child won’t see you? […]
I was a lonely child. Some days, I even sat, peering past my lace curtains to the black, night sky, hoping to see that star shining back at me. And although I was too young to know some fixed luminous point in the sky was not the Savior of the World… That star somehow gave me […]
We just talked about it again, trudging through the Christmas tree farm the other day. Our older two, two decades and more, a boyfriend, my ten and a five-year-old, in toe. Each year, we bring someone different. Is that because they need to know the story too? It was year two of marriage. I remember it […]
I know the “right” things to do at Christmas. We cut down our tree, post pictures on Facebook. The little village, set up. Stockings, hung perfectly… But I forget about that little oblong box. The one I pull out and put back each season. We get out our, “Happy Birthday, Jesus” sign, the one our kids […]