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Don’t Treat Jesus Like a Baby
You know how sometimes when you go home at Christmas, your family treats you like you’re still a kid even though you’re twenty-three? or fifty-six? Sometimes, especially at Christmas, we treat Jesus as if He was still a baby. He’s not. The babe in a manger grew up, took the sins of all humanity upon …[ read more ]
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Trapped in a Scary Snow Globe
For some people, the holidays only intensify their feelings of isolation and separateness from others. This flash fiction piece tells Carly’s Christmas Story – The Snow Globe: “Like a snow globe? How’s that?” The church counselor shifted forward in her chair as I searched for words. “You know those snow globes people pull out at …[ read more ]
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Letting You in On a Secret
Buried treasure. Isn’t it fascinating? Just the thought that a person could stumble on some hidden, ancient artifact or a chest of pirate’s gold stirs something deep within us. We never outgrow the stories of people who search, braving dangers, enduring hardships, ignoring scoffers, leaving the comforts of home, taking unimaginable risks and then reaping …[ read more ]
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When You Feel Shut Out of Christmas
Christmas brings many people together but for others, it highlights feelings of isolation, depression and sadness. It is for these people that I retell Carly’s story. The Snow Globe – Carly’s Christmas Story “Like a snow globe? How’s that?” The church counselor shifted forward in her chair as I searched for words. “You know those …[ read more ]