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I love Advent! And when Casiday was little, I loved the idea of making each day leading up to Christmas meaningful and fun. But in a pastor’s home, it can be hard to do anything for 24 days straight through December and she danced in The Nutcracker for several years.
Yesterday I shared about The Advent Invitation … and why Advent is such a special season for me. If you haven’t read that post, I hope you will. But here’s what I know — you are as busy as I am. Which means, you may not have time to research and
Advent. Advent is an invitation to more than checking days off until Christmas. It’s an invitation to take stock of our souls, to prepare our hearts for celebrating the One who has come and will one day come again. It’s a season of preparation. I need this. Maybe more than
Can you believe Christmas is just over two weeks away? I don’t know about you but to me it really feels like 2016 has flown by. As we’ve been working out our holiday calendar and plans, we keep coming back to our WHY. This year it’s circled back to time
I’ve been doing the She Reads Truth study on The Beatitudes. It’s one of my favorite passages—and also one that reminds me how much I need Jesus. I started reading these verses in Matthew 5 the day after the election and I’ve been reading them, meditating on them, praying them, and
Our Elf is not on the shelf this year. She’s happily resting on a ladder propped against the tree. She’ll stay there with her little sideways grin until we pack all the stuff up until next year. (Unless, that is, our fifteen-year-old decides she wants to use the elf to
