Category: 1000 Gifts This day ushers in the New Year, and we look to it as a marker for an end and new beginning. No doubt, last year was filled with its own triumphs and its own trials. It held celebrations, and also griefs. It’s speckled with sweet success and maybe riddled with regrets. It holds it’s own…  When I heard his yells from a far, I thought baby girl had made her way in front of his car. Panicked stricken I ran, but thankfully found her safely sitting on the stoop. In the distance, I still heard his cries, and I knew. They were coming from the barn where Husband went to…  Our morning brought an unexpected mourning. Though we’ve been nursing our beloved horse Whiskers to health the last 3 weeks, we lost her, unexpectedly, this morning. So, with thanks today, also hard thanks… Counting gifts and hard thanks #970-1007 for Christmas party picnics for volleyball and wolleyball games with my family for our children with…  Do you remember last year at this time? There was a rustling in my soul. I read Ann’s words and they left me near breathless. “What does Jesus get for His birthday? …if we get wrapped presents for our birthdays, real sacrifices from people who love us — they gave up other things to give…  We told them last year, just a few days before Christmas, “Christmas will be different next year. It won’t be presents as usual to add to our already abundant lot. Christmas will be about giving. A turning from questioning, ‘What can we get?’ to, ‘What can we give?’” How do we teach the children to…  I held a seed in my hand as did each student in class. We discussed how God created it to lay dormant, to be nourished, even in darkness, to have a season, to sprout, to grow and produce. “We can’t look at the seed, wish it to grow or say, ‘Grow seed. Grow,’ and make… |
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