Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christmas/Advent
The Christmas story and Jesus’ entrance into our world is wonderful on many levels. It reminds us that God keeps his promises. It’s a demonstration that God sees and responds to our unmet desires. However, I’m not sure that’s the best part of the story. The best part, in my humble opinion, is that the Christmas story shows us that …
Christmas/Advent
My favorite Christmas carol is “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. It’s my favorite because it captures the longing inherent in the celebration of Christmas. I remember several Christmases where I would sit at the piano and play that song over and over again. At the time, I had my own unmet longings and the words to the song resonated with …
Christmas/Advent
At Christmas, it’s easy for us to focus just on what Jesus did for us. That’s understandable as Jesus accomplished a heck of a lot for us in his 30 odd years of life, starting with his incredible birth. However, we can learn a lot by thinking about what Christmas meant for Jesus. The Inside Scoop in Philippians 2 We …
Christmas/Advent
One of my favorite Christmas songs is “O Come, O Come,Emmanuel”. I think it’s a lovely song and also has a great message. The word “Emmanuel”is Hebrew for “God with us.” That’s what Christmas is really all about. Through Jesus, God now lives among us. Now, God has always been with his people in one way or another. In the …
Christmas/Advent
This week, as I’ve been thinking about the Christmas story, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Magi or the Wise Men that are mentioned in Matthew 2:1-12. The Magi are interesting characters. We aren’t told nearly enough about them in my humble opinion(though I suppose God has told us everything we need to know about them). We don’t know …
Christmas/Advent
Christmas is here! I got to start my Advent devotional yesterday and I am so excited for the Christmas season. It’s easily my favorite time of the year. However, as I talked about in last week’s blog post, it can be hard during the Christmas season to slow down and actually remember why we’re celebrating. To help keep me on …
Christmas/Advent
When I was a kid, the Christmas season seemed to last forever. The days seemed to crawl by as I waited for that magical day where we would finally get to open all those presents. Now that I’m older, the opposite happens. It seems like I blink and Christmas is over. What makes this really hard is that it seems …
Christian Life, Christmas/Advent, Theology
One of my family’s Christmas traditions is to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve. For us, this movie is a classic. We sing along with all the songs and quote many of our favorite lines (which I think drives my husband, who did not grow up with this particular film, a little nuts). One of my favorite songs …
Christian Life, Christmas/Advent, Theology
One of the things that I miss about Christmas from when I was a kid is the sheer joy of the day. Not that Christmas is all about presents, but when kids receive presents, especially THE present that they wanted that year, there’s just a certain kind of joy there. I still remember a bit of what it felt …
Christian Life, Christmas/Advent, Theology
One of the hardest parts about Christmas as a kid was waiting for it to come. The month of December seemed to drag on forever. One of the longest seeming Decembers was when I was six. That year, I asked Santa for an American Girl doll (the epitome of greatness for little girls at the time). I even saved …