We delivered a food basket to the families from the local community house. My children, like most, didn’t understand poverty after all, they can’t have soda whenever they want it, (milk builds strong bones) and hamburgers from McDonalds are hard to come by. (I think it’s my aversion to hydrogenated oils.) To them –they knew [...]
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Santa did make it to every house yesterday, and despite all the whining and naughtiness at my house, he came to ours too. But how? Live Science found Santa expert Larry Silverberg, a noted U.S. engineer and self-described “rocket scientist.” He believes that Santa has made scientific breakthroughs that “the rest of humanity can only [...]
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Christmas Begins When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with the flocks, then the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal those broken in spirit, to feed the hungry, to release [...]
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If you haven’t been there yet, check out the Norad site, which uses satelite to capture pictures of Santa as he travels on Christmas Eve. You can check him each hour, (don’t forget to hit the refresh button) and see him as he travels to China, Russia, England, New York and makes it back to [...]
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The Winter Solstice happened early this morning at 00:22 Universal Time on December 21, 2006. It happens the same time for everyone, although our clocks say different things. The solstice is unique among days of the year — the time of the longest night and the shortest day. The dark triumphs but only briefly. For [...]
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Here we have the wooden nativity set and the Coca-Cola trucks mixed up with the wooden pieces of Noah’s ark. “Did the zebras come to visit baby Jesus?’ Let’s put Noah beside Mary. No, maybe we should put Mary in the ark, and leave Noah and the shepherds with baby Jesus.”
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You know it’s coming. The frenzy of the last-minute errands, wrapping presents late at night, the fussy kids, that one in-law who never fails to say something that hurts you, late parties, endless cooking and cleaning. So now, while you still have the chance, pull in and center yourself. If you do this for yourself, [...]
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Now, you’re probably going to think this is from one of those sappy Christmas movies, but this really did happen. Just as I was finishing up my previous post about missing my Mom’s cookies, a car drove up in the dark. Someone knocked on the door, and ran away. At my doorstep, was a plate [...]
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Missing my Mom’s Cookies It’s the handwriting that does it. As you read it, somehow they become real again, and you tell yourself there’s no way someone so real could be gone. I’m doing much better than last year. I think it was right before Thanksgiving when I saw the end caps at the grocery [...]
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