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Good tidings of great joy!

Many of us sent and received letters in Christmas cards, intended to update folks on ‘the goings on’ of the past…

Hello, Mary.



The two words make me smile—Hello, Mary. My first name is Mary, did you know that? Mary Christine. But indeed it was "Ave, Maria", the angel Gabriel spoke to Mary. In Latin, it means Greetings, Mary or Hello. A young virgin, Mary is told, 'you are going to have a son--a holy son--the one and only Son of God. You are highly esteemed by God, and this is how it will happen …' [Now this was the fulfillment of a prophecy written by the prophet Isaiah about 700 years…

Feel God’s presence at Christmas time. …

The Last Temptation.  Matthew 4.8-11 

It all started in the Garden . . .…

DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? Before you answer that question, I will ask you another: do you love people? Stop. Interview yourself, and then answer the question honestly. If you do not, ask God to help you love others, for it is his will. I am on the last leg of my journey back across the United States, from New York back home to Southern California. The best part of travelling is all the people I meet along the way. I love New York City, but it is all of the people met in transit and whilst there…

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Holiness in our Holidays

This time of year is special - Morning coffee with my Bible is next to our Christmas tree, and…

They are coming Home.  Thanksgiving, 2014.



Happy Thanksgiving.



This is a unique year … three of my four children are up and out of the house, but will be coming home for Thanksgiving. Wait, wasn’t it just yesterday, that I was ten years old, running down the stairs in my big old Colonial Revival home with all of the smells of Thanksgiving already under way in my mother’s kitchen? And I was the youngest of four children, waiting for each of them to arrive! Time goes by.…

The religious were blind. Matthew 3.1-12; Luke 7.24-35



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When John saw the sanctimonious Pharisees and Sadducees1 coming out to the desert, he blasted them, calling them out for their outward piety, while their hearts were unrepentant. Their garb identified them and their position but it also helped them maintain their religious pride rather than seeing their sin. It seems…