Christmas Tourists

The Center of Attention My Best Friend’s Birthday This weekend, believers in Jesus Christ, our Savior, gather throughout the world to celebrate His birth. It was quite the event, seeing as how His arrival split history in two, freed us from sin’s bondage, and gave us eternal life. Love came down to rescue us a few […]


I’m Feasting on Pickles While I Wait for a Baby!

Corn, Hot Roast Beef Sandwich, Pinot, and PICKLES! Green Olives and the Baby Jesus Confession: I love pickles. Dills, bread-and-butters, sweet baby gherkins, cherry peppers–I’ve seldom met a pickle that I didn’t adore. Ditto their relatives, the olives. As a child, I often cleaned out the relish plate at the end of holiday meals, mounting one […]


I’m Feasting on Pickles While I Wait for a Baby!

Corn, Hot Roast Beef Sandwich, Pinot, and PICKLES! Green Olives and the Baby Jesus Confession: I love pickles. Dills, bread-and-butters, sweet baby gherkins, cherry peppers–I’ve seldom met a pickle that I didn’t adore. Ditto their relatives, the olives. As a child, I often cleaned out the relish plate at the end of holiday meals, mounting one […]


No Cheap Christmas Gifts!

Cadence, Filled with Joy. Christmas Day, 2009. We’re all Bazillionaires I was startled, some weeks ago, to find this subject line on a message board for Christian writers: “CHEAP CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!!” Surely the person who posted this meant cheap in the sense of  “purchasable below the going price or the real value,” but the phrase […]


No Cheap Christmas Gifts!

Cadence, Filled with Joy. Christmas Day, 2009. We’re all Bazillionaires I was startled, some weeks ago, to find this subject line on a message board for Christian writers: “CHEAP CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!!” Surely the person who posted this meant cheap in the sense of  “purchasable below the going price or the real value,” but the phrase […]