December 2009

Pears In Poplar Trees

December 17, 2009

You can’t stop Christmas!  It happened as an historical event and it continues to happen in our lives each Advent season.  We prepare . . . prepare our homes for visiting, prepare our meals for consuming, prepare our gifts for sharing, prepare our churches for worshiping, and (hopefully) prepare our hearts for reflecting upon “Emmanuel”, [...]

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“Preparing a Highway For Our God”

December 14, 2009

My wife and I recently had a nostalgic moment while driving to upstate New York to visit our daughter and new granddaughter.  We are from that area and were traveling along the “highways & byways” we had known for over twenty years.  It fostered much discussion about all the memories we had made, traveling these [...]

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“Advent Perspective”

December 8, 2009

OK, last weekend I had my annual bout with converting to atheism.  This consideration is brought on while putting up our Christmas decorations!  Between the tree in the house and the lights outside, I wondered what I really believed in and why?!?!?!  First the tree.  We have a family tradition of joining our oldest daughter [...]

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