Christmas is a Christian celebration. Many people, however, are not Christians. So, should everyone be expected to say, “Merry Christmas?” I, for one, am perfectly okay with people greeting me with “Happy Holidays.” The word “Christmas” means “more of Christ.” Non-believers don’t even know Jesus personally, let alone want more ...
Read More »“Here I Raise My Ebenezer”
Ever wonder what that line in the classic hymn “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” means? “Here I raise my Ebenezer; Hither by Thy help I’m come; And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home.” The hymn was written in 1758 by Robert Robinson a pastor and ...
Read More »Does Prayer Remind God or Us?
When we pray, we are intimately connected to God, and while we ask for His help, ask for others’ frailties and quietly listen for His answers, we are one. Prayer is a complicated business. Sometimes when we think of it and talk about it, it seems it sometimes generates more ...
Read More »Ask Your Soul: Why So Sad?
It’s not usual for a song to come to my mind completely out of the blue. It happens all the time. This morning, however, the song that invaded my thoughts was quite an unusual one. I was sweeping the floor, and to my recollection, I wasn’t thinking about anything in ...
Read More »The Blessings Of Waiting On God’s Best
My cat is a thinker. She understands a lot of words and gestures. I have even seen her reasoning to solve a problem. For example, when she spies a stray cat slinking towards the side of the house, she knows that if she runs to the window on that side ...
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