Monthly Archives: December 2020

December 20, 2020 It’s hard to believe that we are in the last week of Advent; equally hard to believe that we are celebrating without carols, candles, communion, and fellowship with our friends and families.   I really miss doing all those ‘Christmas things’ we have always done.   This year has been and continues to beContinue reading “God’s Gifts at Christmas: 4. A Vision of Church”

December 13, 2020 Patience is a virtue – which makes me VERY unvirtuous as I have never been a patient person!  Patience also is a portion of the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), so I know have a very long way to go in my journey of spiritual transformation!  This reality check was a realContinue reading “God’s Gifts at Christmas: 3. Patience”

I may be a bit slow out of the gate, but a bulb (Christmas bulb?) lit up in my brain recently.   One of God’s gifts at Christmas is the gift of choice and examples of how our choices affect not only our own lives but the lives of those around us.   We so blithely readContinue reading “God’s Gifts at Christmas: 2.Choice”