Monthly Archives: December 2017

Message 18: Angel Pageant Glorious

“Fit for an Angel,” available at my art blog in Christmas Wonder Let us use our gifts and talents to worship the Lord with all the heavenly host, Keeping Christmas in our hearts!   If you have not seen and … Continue reading

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Message 17: Come Let Us Behold Him

O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant. O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, Born the King of angels.   The Star shone, the angels sang to announce the Father’s Gift of Me to … Continue reading

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Joyeux Noel Eve!!

May your home be filled this Christmas Eve day and night with bells ringing of sweet joy, warm scents on  your stove, laughter and light, gorgeous carols playing, tender glow and expectant wonder… especially as we remember the birth of … Continue reading

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Message 15: Hanging Remembrance on the Tree

“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” When the fresh scent of baking wafts through the house as of old; when the shimmer of my tree is as candlelight in the darkened room and I am lost in its glow; when Christmas … Continue reading

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Message 14: Luminaria

“Lights of Christmas” I stand and breathe in the brisk December twilight, watching  lights sparkle on one by one, house by house.  Oh, the tenderness I see in this welcoming of the season’s joy!  Something in them mists my eyes,  … Continue reading

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Message 13: True Adventure

“Snow on Snow,” available at my art blog in Christmas Wonder You can have fun in the predictable.  But most often, adventure is found in the unpredictable…  As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and … Continue reading

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Message 12: The Gift of Blessing

“Mama’s Little Christmas Baker” Take time to make a wonder-memory.   .   I have given you the gift of speaking blessing over each other… Of coming alongside, placing your hand on another’s shoulder, declaring Light and Life and My … Continue reading

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Message 11: Be Full of Faith

Believe…Behold…Be Expectant… For Starry Miracles Are Waiting All Around     O holy night, the stars are brightly shining…  Only the eyes of the faith-filled will see all that I have prepared for you.  Believe against all opposition.  Behold… your … Continue reading

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In this merry month…of writing

An announcement and a little request… I just submitted an expanded version of one of my Christmas stories  – “In the Merry Month of Mae” — to a contest and invite you to hop on over to http://beneaththerainbow.com/christmas-writers-contest and  read … Continue reading

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Message Ten: Gifts

This season may never be Christmas Card Perfect in an imperfect world… yet… God calls us to employ His Gift of Holy imagination… “Skater’s Waltz,” (“By the Light of the Silvery Moon”) To see and allow the Sacred Joy of … Continue reading

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