We are in the home stretch... Thanksgiving has come and gone and it's full-steam ahead to Christmas and a new year. I have no childhood recollection of how fast these few weeks go by, I simply remember enjoying two separate holidays that seemed to just magically happen to my great delight. Grown ups know... Continue Reading →
Keep Your Gifts
Happy post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas season! It's full speed ahead from here on out people, so hold on to your Santa hats. I've lost count of how many "simplify the season" Advent reading plans or books I've seen this week. It seems like every year the stores come out with more "stuff" to help us simplify. It's... Continue Reading →
Yada Yada Yada…The Best Response to Life and the Holidays by Ann Voskamp
I found this at Ann Voskamp's blog "A Holy Experience". It is so beautifully written, so timely and so needed as we enter this time of year. And yadah, it’s Hebrew, and it literally means to hold out the hand in four ways: 1. to bemoan with this wringing of hands. 2. or to revere... Continue Reading →