As far back as I can remember, my family has always celebrated New Year’s Day with a big meal featuring pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, and corn bread. My dad enjoys throwing in some baked clams, but I’ve chosen to leave those out of our version of the family tradition… :) This year was no different….
Tag: Bible
On Being Thankful
This is the day we are thankful. All over our country we spend the day—even the whole weekend—thinking about the things for which we are thankful. Sometimes we have cute ways of saying it. You know, like the annual “go around the table and say what you’re thankful for” exercise. Or maybe it’s a more…
Blessed Are Those Who Want Everyone To Be Treated Right
God blesses those people who want everyone to be treated right more than to eat or drink. They will be given what they want! Our family is reading through the book of Matthew together currently, and we came to chapter five today. Many may know that chapter five is where you find the words Jesus…
Freedom To Not Be Free
As I mentioned a while back, I’ve been reading through Paul’s letter to the Christians in Corinth. (1 Corinthians.) I’m trying to do it in bigger chunks to get a broader perspective of what Paul is talking about in this letter. It’s one that has always slightly baffled me. Paul (a life-long rule keeper) speaks…
This Message Is Christ
For some reason, I keep wanting to read the book of 1 Corinthians lately. I haven’t figured out why just yet, but it keeps popping into my mind. So, I’ve begun a few times, but I also have felt like I want to read the whole thing through in one setting, to perhaps get a…
Significance
It has struck me again recently just how significant Jesus is. It’s not just that our entire calendar is based roughly on the year of his birth some two thousand years ago now. (Though that’s pretty significant.) It’s not just that there are people all over the entire world who know his name and use…
Unseen Help
My two boys and I have been trying to read through the book of Luke this month. At least the beginning, where we got to read again the story of Jesus’ arrival. It really is both ordinary and incredible all at once. We read the part about the angel appearing to the guys who were…
Blessed Are Those…
But happy are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God.Psalms 146:5 (NLT) At our home school group yesterday, a friend of ours spoke of the people he had met and is currently helping in Sierra Leone, one of whom is a 10-year-old boy named…
Life Is You
So… it always happens this way… In the middle of intense busyness and while feeling quite burdened and overly stressed … a song was birthed. I really don’t do that much anymore. I can easily push them aside, the little lyrics and melodies and piano/guitar riffs. I have other stuff to do. And, well, I…
My Quiver is Full
This morning I had a little quiet time before the children woke up (because I got up early to see our friends off on their journey home) and I decided to pick up my Bible and read something random. I’ve been reading through Genesis, love to read the Gospels, recently read the book of Amos,…