The new year approaches – mere days away. Ann mentioned resolutions in her devotion yesterday, and many of us are making resolutions, or setting goals, planning what we want to do differently in 2017. That’s good. Change is good, though we often balk at change – I know I do.…
Read moreChristmas fills us with warm fuzzy thoughts of love and peace on earth. Our sweet little Christmas pageants acted out by children in bathrobes and headpieces; we all smile and giggle as “Mary” kisses her plastic baby Jesus and Joseph standing off from Mary because “he doesn’t like girls or…
Read more“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11) The year it happened, I was 7 years old. My mother, recently single, was working two jobs to keep food on the table. That night, our Christmas Eve excitement…
Read moreI have enjoyed reading all of the posts this month from our awesome writers here at Laced with Grace about Christmas. I, like many of those who have already written this month, LOVE Christmas! I love the family gatherings, I love the Christmas concerts, I love the smell of Christmas,…
Read more14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are…
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