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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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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In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, heaven cannot hold him, nor earth sustain; heaven and earth shall flee away when he comes to reign. In the bleak…

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He didn’t know this visit would hurt. He didn’t know to ask if they would pinch or poke him. He bounced into the hospital in his Spiderman costume, looking for stickers and suckers, knowing just how to wrap people around his little finger with charm. I knew what lay ahead for my son. My heart…

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This week’s Faith Jam at The Faith Barista is on our dreams for Christmas. At first, I wasn’t going to write anything because I don’t have any dreams for Christmas this year. We went through the motions for the kids two years ago. It was just 2 months after our oldest daughter had died, and…

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