"IT IS FINISHED!" Hmm. Weren't they JESUS' last words or were they really GOD'S words the moment JESUS made HIS first cry on the night HE entered the world as a BABY ? GOD came to earth dressed as a BABY because everything else that GOD did never seemed enough to get everyone's attention, to get everyone to look up, and to acknowledge that there is ONE GOD & ONE SAVIOR. Therefore HE came dressed as a BABY . IT IS FINISHED~ THE BABY is born. GOD did what HE said HE

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE the day that would change the world~ that would change the hearts of all who came to experience the NEW BORN SON. But JESUS was not just an ordinary SON~ HE was THE ONE & ONLY ONE. 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE the big BREAKTHROUGH, when LOVE broke through the darkness, the hopelessness, and the sorrow & grief, in GOD'S perfect timing. 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE, when the labor pains began & then THE BABY JESUS was born so that ALL can come to HIM in our labor

Will I sacrifice my ETERNITY for things of this world? ETERNITY is for everyone, as no one dies forever because there is a place that we will ALL live forever, and it is our choice where we will spend it. Now this doesn't sound very falalalala and all CHRISTMASY but it is. As I look at the BABY in my nativity I realize I actually have 4 BABY JESUSES, all different~ One from Charlie Brown's Christmas. One of giant felt. One of pewter. One of fine china. Hmm, without even try

What does The SHINING CHRISTMAS BALL at the top of the tree possess that the NON~SHINING CHRSITMAS BALL beneath it doesn't? THE LIGHT! The NON~SHINING CHRSITMAS BALL is so close to the top, yet it just cant seem to shine. It is trying and striving. It did everything right. It came out of its box. It is hung on the tree, year after year. This year it even got a top position, but it still doesn't shine. "Maybe if someone will move me closer to the top. Maybe if I try harder I

Was JESUS born at THE PERFECT hospital? Did MARY have a slew of THE PERFECT nurses and doctors caring for her? Did JOSEPH go home to pick up THE PERFECT car seat to bring THE BABY home? Oh no, but the night was PERFECT. Actually, it was BEYOND PERFECT because PERFECTION was lying in a manager wearing RAGS . THE RAGS that swaddled JESUS, making HIM become one of us. All because our PERFECT GOD LOVES so PERFECTLY that all HIS WAYS are PERFECT. So what did GOD do? HE

Life is filled with  TWISTS & TURNS, that TWIST  and TURN  in directions that you never imagined, yet are not a surprise to GOD.   As a friend of ours, just experienced a TWIST AND TURN that was fatal. As he had no clue what was going to happen that day, when his car was hit by another, that ended up taking his life. His life. His life that was taken, yet he still lives on as he donated his organs. And now we mourn this great loss. A TWIST and TURN in life, that he did not pl

The QUIETNESS  of the morning wakes me up. THE STILLNESS is so beautifully pure, that there is no room for interruption. Because the space and place is reserved for JESUS. Oh HE BIRTHS NEW LIFE into the dead spaces and places, the holes in our hearts that were created by the BROKENNESS OF LIFE. Whether it is a hole that you created, or if it is a hole created by another, or a hole that circumstances have created. The HOLE  is an INVITATION for THE QUIETNESS, and the THE STILL

WHERE IS CHRISTMAS? (A Poem) Are you trying to make Christmas happen this year, By keeping the traditions that you hold so dear Is it in the making of your favorite cookies, or building the gingerbread house~ Is it in reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas where there is a sleeping mouse? Is it in watching the movies that make your heart smile? Is it in buying the truck or the doll for a child? What happens when your tastebuds change~ And your favorite cookie is no longe

They all came because they all were invited, even though their invitation began with "DO NOT BE AFRAID". Now would you R.S.V.P. "yes" to a party invitation that began with the words~ "DO NOT BE AFRAID" ? Hmm. I would immediately be afraid. But then one by one they took a moment to hear the rest of the invitation. “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with GOD. Listen carefully: you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a SON, and you shall name HIM JESUS"

Oh how I love old movies, and it isn't only because I am old, but because I have always liked them. Is it the simplicity of being in black and white or the simple truths that they bring? Or is it Cary Grant who plays an angel sent into a Bishop's life, to bring CHRISTMAS back into his heart in the movie, "The Bishop's Wife"? Well the Bishop got the message loud & clear as he shared his new found heart~ "All the stockings are filled, all that is, except one. And we have even