I feel pretty jolly, over all. Not because everything is going smoothly, but because there is an inherent joy within the Christmas season for me. The only explanation is the spiritual significance and infusion of the holiday. The days are holy! It does add to the overall atmosphere of joy and peace that the lights, […]
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Fourth of July, High Point of Summer
For me, the Fourth is the watershed of summer….everything builds to this place of heat, picnics, and fireworks, and is downhill from there on through to the last gasp of summer, Labor Day. Maybe because the mystery is gone by the fourth of July. I know whether my seedlings thrived, what the insect populations are […]
Christmas Countdown
We had our first Advent devotional yesterday, in our family we try to make it daily throughout the Christmas season. It doesn’t always work out that way when shopping, baking and other things interfere, but we try. There has been little decorating, except that the husband put up the Christmas lights last week. That was […]
