Christmas Year Round…

The Christmas tree stored or recycled….Stockings taken down and mantles cleared…the Wise Men have come and gone, back home to give witness…the creche is packed up and the pointsettias have been put out by the garden gate. Christmas is over…or is it?! For each time we allow God to love others through us… Christmas continues. [...]

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Become the Gift…

Jesus was born dying… Dying to LOVE you. The wood of the manger…the wood of the cross. Christ Child breaking open the virginal womb of Mary…Crucified Christ tearing the temple veil in two. Newborn Babe swaddled in clothes…Christ Man mocked in purple cloth. Blessed Mother holding the Babe to her chest…Sorrowful Mother holding her Son from the Cross. [...]

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Be Someone’s “Leaven in the Dough”…

How many times have we forgotten to say thank you? How many people have we forgotten to thank?  It may be someone living in our house, a dear friend, an acquaintance, or even a perfect stranger. We may have been too distracted or too busy… or thought we deserved it or took it for granted. [...]

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The Little Drummer Boy in Each of Us…

Don’t we all have a little bit of the Drummer Boy in our hearts? We long to give the Lord a gift that truly expresses the uniqueness of who we are, but we feel poor in the offering. Sometimes we don’t realize that what makes us special is often that one thing we think is [...]

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The Wrong Person at the Wrong Time?…or the RIght Person at the Wrong TIme?

Do you often think…I must have been the wrong person at the wrong time?!… But when we are the right person at someone else’s wrong time…. and GIVE from the HEART… We become the hands of Christ… bringing wholeness into the brokenness. The needy are all about us… They come in all shapes and sizes [...]

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