Advent Hope 2011

The beginning of Advent has awoken with us this morning; this season of remembering, preparation, waiting, and anticipation. The remembering of Christ come and the preparation of Christ come. This week focuses on the promises of the Messiah to come, fulfilled in...

Holding Close

This weekend was sad and a bit heavy. We found out on Saturday morning that friend who has been really dear to us finished her battle with cancer in the night. Val encouraged me often in my journey as a wife and mama, especially in the first couple of years when I was...

Advent Peace

I wish that I could give an accurate depiction of what our advent happenings looked like. Every time I write about, it sounds either very dry and ritualistic to me or like this perfectly planned every thing goes right thing. It is really neither. For one, we aren’t...

Advent Week 1: Hope

I blogged about the coming of Advent in an earlier post and so I thought I would share a little more of our plans. Again, this is a tradition that we are just learning and enjoying as we go. I have found suggestion from others to be very helpful and so I also want to...