Not the number of shopping days that remain or the number of days until Santa comes. It’s His coming. It’s preparing our hearts for the coming of the greatest gift we will ever receive. Preparing our hearts for Jesus. Isaiah 9:6–For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. For four hundred years God remained si

I have this scar—it’s about five inches long.  The place where my skin was broken and the cancer was taken out of me. She wore a pink shirt and when she got ready to leave the cancer clinic she forgot which side of the building she had parked her car. And another lady–she walked in.  Her face glowed and her head, it was covered in a yellow and blue scarf with the tiniest of flowers weaved into the colors. Cancer does these things. Cancer is cancer and love is of God. He came

He stood there so bold with his nose freshly kissed by the ocean sun.  Freckles shining bright and a smile that spread wider with every word he sang.  His song book in hand–lined with words and musical notes he has yet learn to read. Alone on the front choir pew and his Daddy close behind him. He looked out over the congregation and when it came time to sing the chorus, he belted out with his five-year old voice–loud.  Love lifted me!  He didn’t care who was watching or if an