Each Day Is a Gift
I never collected Beanie Babies, but I do have a camel and a hippo. The camel looks nice beside the piece of olive wood and replica of a Dead Sea Scroll that Ray’s daddy brought us back from Israel in…
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A Gift from the God Who Is Love
An astounding thing happened just over 2000 years ago. Our Father sent His only Son away from the wonder and majesty and safety of heaven to the earth He had created. The Nativity, painted enamel on gold, c. 1650, French…
The Gifts of Christmas
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem . . . and the star, which they had seen in the east, went on before them…
Good Gifts
Last Tuesday Ray and I took an especially foggy walk in the early morning. The morning had begun pleasantly with an email from my friend Sara, whom I have known since I was in college, and texts from my friend…
We have gifts, and others do, too.
In the lecture Ray and I attended last week, Dr. Kelly M. Kapic encouraged us to honor the Giver of gifts. Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with…
Mothers’ Gifts That Keep On Giving
Ray probably wonders sometimes what in the world I am going to ask him to do next. I recently strapped a toy drum around my neck and asked him to snap my picture. The reason was simple enough. I had…