The One Word idea has really taken off this year. Ann Voskamp wrote about naming the year, and Alece at Grit and Glory has challenged everyone to choose and live a word this year. I have been thinking about this for a few weeks. At first, I was stuck in the past, thinking only of…

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I have a split personality. I know, I know. All the hype says that if you have a split personality, neither persona knows the other exists. Blah blah blah. I’m talking about my spiritual person. My faith. Or lack thereof. Some days, God is near and I can easily turn to him in praise, in…

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I prayed as I walked, dog trotting beside me, through the unusual-for-January mist. “God, what would you have me focus on this year?” Images of my husband of twelve years, and each of my three living children flashed through my head, but no words. I walked and waited. Thirty minutes later, as I rounded the…

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I didn’t intend to go this many days without writing. I seem to have contracted some interminable virus, probably picked up while at the hospital with our youngest two weeks ago. I’ve been coughing ever since. Translated, that means I’m barely keeping up with the work around the house, much less writing anything coherent. I actually…

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Merry Christmas from our house to yours. An angel of the Lord appeared to him [Joseph] in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and…

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Why do so many have their underwear in a wad about the increasing numbers of people and businesses wishing people a happy holiday or expressing season’s greetings in December? When you wish someone a happy holiday, you are talking to them, right? It’s about their holiday. It would be ignorant to wish a Canadian a…

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