Shannon Coe 6 Minute Read What if someone whispered in your ear, “Slow down, savor these moments better” ? It’s hustle and bustle time and we race and fill every moment in the name of worship and traditions. We have a tendency to heap on ourselves activities to make this time memorable and meaningful. But what if the key to…
Chantel 2 Minute Read It’s November. For my corner of the globe, that means autumn is making its last hurrah. The last tints of orange are glowing on the trees, and the final harvest is being made. The nights are getting cold now. Twenty-fourteen is wrapping up and settling down to play out its last few moments before it…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read When I graduated from high school, decided to study Communications in college, and people asked me what I wanted to do with that degree, I answered, “I want to work for a magazine or a newspaper.” Then in my junior year, I took an internship that had me writing for the university magazine and newspaper….
Rachelle Rea Cobb 6 Minute Read See that girl there? She’s seventeen; strong hands grip the wheel of her daddy’s Cadillac, and she’s barely out of the driveway. That’s her own never-known-another house in her window. But in the windshield, well, that’s a whole different view. You see, that picture was taken the summer I graduated homeschool high school, a scant…
Chantel 2 Minute Read Every time the calendar rolls around from December to a brand new January, just about everyone who has a calendar starts to get ready to embrace a whole new 365 days. I’m not one to make a big deal of resolutions. I am all too keenly familiar with the sense of failure that comes with…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read There must be a mystery ingredient in the Cranberry Fluff that causes large amounts of it to disappear while it’s in the refrigerator overnight. It’s a phenomenon that has manifested itself more and more each year of late. And it’s especially apparent when my 15-year-old brother Caleb is in the house. Cranberry Fluff has become…
Danielle Carey 6 Minute Read As I sit down to write about Christmas in Australia, it feels more like the wintry Christmas seasons of the movies we grew up watching. It’s grey, breezy, and unseasonably cold. And by unseasonably cold, I mean 19 degrees Celsius (66 F). Which I guess, if I’m being honest about it, is not cold at…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read Mincepies are unsophisticated, homely and above all, tasty mouthfuls of comfort and joy. I love their simplicity and the surprise and delight of biting through dusty, dry pastry into sweet, spicy fruit. Traditional Christmas fare in England, I think they’re tasty at any time, but there’s something about their appearance and aroma that makes me want…
Elisabeth Allen 2 Minute Read I sometimes wonder what Mary was doing the moment before the angel entered her life and said, Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you … (Luke 1:28) I wish I knew whether she was cooking or cleaning or doing something else altogether. Perhaps she was keeping an eye on her little brothers and sisters…
Chantel 2 Minute Read When I think about the holidays, one of the first things that come to mind are traditions. For me, traditions are the things that make holidays special. They were the things I looked forward to the most, and the things that made some of my best holiday memories. For me, some of my favorite holiday…
Elisabeth Allen 3 Minute Read God loves women, redeems women, empowers women – then and now. On the day we call Christmas, He could have simply arrived on earth, yet He chose to enter it through a virgin’s womb. (The Women of Christmas p.122) Liz Curtis Higgs‘ Christmas devotional journey is subtitled Experience the Season Afresh with Elizabeth, Mary and…
Emily C. Gardner 4 Minute Read When I was younger, traditions were the most sacred part of any holiday. Mess with one of the things we did every year and the whole holiday felt off kilter. If the evening didn’t culminate with full bellies and jammies in front of Gramma’s roaring fireplace, it just wasn’t Thanksgiving. If we didn’t drive around in the…
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