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