Don’t you just love how things work out? Although I really enjoyed exchanging cards with people around the world last year, I decided a few weeks ago not to send Christmas cards via snail mail this year for a variety of reasons. This week, I was given the opportunity to join a project that is […]
Christmas
It’s Your Joy, Do All You Can to Keep It!
A few years ago, it definitely was not beginning to look like Christmas in my city in mid-December. At least, not on the surface. With temperatures well above freezing and no snow on the ground, I still found myself singing “Jingle Bells” as I darted around my neighbourhood in my power-chair, a rare luxury in […]
Advent Series – Part 4 – He is our Humble King
“And He shall reign forever and ever, King of kings! and Lord of lords! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” Hallelujah Chorus by Georg Friedrich Handel Isaiah 9:6-7 – “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty […]
Advent Series – Part One – He is Our Righteousness
The Cambridge dictionary defines Advent as the beginning of an event, the invention of something, or the arrival of a person. For Christians, Advent starts four weeks before Christmas. The season of Advent is meant to be one of hopeful reflection, anticipating the coming Messiah. I will be providing a devotion each week during Advent as […]
My Christmas Prayer
My Christmas greetings for 2017 and a Christmas Prayer for all those who find the Christmas season a difficult one. May you know Him as Immanuel – God with us. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqEJnLGw5f0[/embedyt] Everlasting Father, I ask you to come to those whose hearts ache on your Son’s birthday. They are hurting and lonely. Father, […]
What Do You Hide Behind Your Bah Humbug?
One December, I was particularly disillusioned with the commercialisation of the holiday season, or so I tried to convince myself. I wished Christmas would go away. I was in a funk, and I planned to hide during the holidays and spend my time watching a marathon of old musicals and eating a couple of frozen […]