Joy

Joy

Blessings of Advent “I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!” ~John 15:11 When I was a child, our mailbox would be filled with catalogs during the Christmas season. In these catalogs were all of the gifts that...
Seasons

Seasons

Ecclesiastes 3 says, 1For everything there is a season,    a time for every activity under heaven.2A time to be born and a time to die.    A time to plant and a time to harvest.3 A time to kill and a time to...
Peace

Peace

Isaiah 9:6 foretells the coming of the prince of peace. “For a child is born to us,     a son is given to us.  The government will rest on his shoulders.     And he will be called:  Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,    ...
Patience

Patience

Galatians 4:4-5 speaks to us about the perfection of the timing of God. Paul says,  “4 But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. 5 God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could...
Charity

Charity

I Corinthians 13 proclaims, Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though...
Anticipation

Anticipation

Isaiah 7:14 says, “All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).” We must admit that the day after Thanksgiving sends all of us...