Category Archives: Family

Leaving Home

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For many people, Christmas means travel.  Travel from one home to another.  From one town to a city.  From a huge metropolis out to the country.  But it usually entails leaving the place you call home and going out to another place.

Mary and Joseph had to travel on that very first Christmas.  They had to leave their hometown of Nazareth and travel many days, with extremely pregnant Mary, on a donkey, to the town of Bethlehem.  All the local inns were booked solid, and Mary was going to have the baby soon.  The barn that they found themselves staying at was probably not in their plans.  But once that precious baby was born, Jesus, Savior for all people, the surroundings were perfect, beautiful, magical, holy.  Because Christmas is not about the perfect place, or the perfect home, or the perfect present.  Christmas is Jesus.  And He makes all things perfect.  🙂   If you don’t have travel plans this Christmas, consider traveling to Bethlehem and that stable.   Blessings, Lisa

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” ~James 1:17

 

Peace in Song

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The Friday before Christmas, and all through the house, not a shopper was shopping, not even the mouse.  I declare today a NON shopping day; we have everything and more that we could possibly need and what is really needed is peace.  What I really need is to be thankful that Jesus came, and have the space and time to be able to appreciate that.  Here is the amazingly talented Cara Dillon’s version of “O Holy Night” to help you and me both.  Blessings for your weekend, Lisa

Rock Eternal

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Mizen Head, Cork, Ireland

Mizen Head, Cork, Ireland

“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.” ~Isaiah 26:3-4

Peace does not come from the perfect present, a spotless house, the most delicious fudge ever made.  Peace comes from Jesus, who descended from perfect Heaven into this world because He loves us.  That is love, that is sacrifice, that is peace.  Blessings, Lisa

The Sheep Came….And Stayed

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These five sheep came to rest on my mantle a few years ago. Our family has a great time moving them around into various sheep vignettes for our entertainment. (And for the sheep to have a change of scenery of course) When the manger scene came out of the box a few weeks ago, I thought about putting them away for the season. Mainly because if Mary and Joseph were this big and saw these huge sheep coming to worship, they would run for their lives! 🙂 But the sheep stayed, and so it is. And I’m not sure why, but things like this make me laugh. And that is a very good thing. Slainte, Lisa
*For more sheep vignettes, please visit an older blog entry of mine, “Don’t Go Down With the Sheep.”

A Bad Case of Pollitis

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polltakerThis is it…I have discovered a have a particularly virulent form of the dreaded disease of pollitis. What is “pollitis”, you may ask? Quite simply, it is the need to publish and collect data on polls, but then NEVER posting the results for the blog readers. The polls just disappear into thin air, as if they never existed. The sufferer of pollitis feels more and more compelled to publish new polls, to see how their readers feel about all manner of things, and the cycle of the disease continues.

So today, I am making a big step in my recovery. I will officially reveal all the results of the past polls (at least the ones that I remember in my advanced stages of this disease). So read them if you are interested, ignore them if they are boring, but feel good that you are helping a pollitis victim recover. 😉 Slainte, Lisa
Postscript: In putting these up, I have discovered yet another facet of the disease…I do not know how to publish just the results. So unfortunately you must click on “view results.” Your workload has been added to, and for that, I am sorry. 🙂




There are more, but it is too embarrassing to continue….