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I always thought “The twelve Days of Christmas” was just a goofy song to sing at Christmas time.  What in the world do leaping lords and swimming swans have to do with Christmas?  Then someone sent me this explanation for the song. The Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly from…

     Do you ever get distracted?  I sure do.  When ever I have something important to do for the the Lord, there are twenty other things demanding my attention.  Our society moves so quickly, that before we know it we can be caught up into a totally different project.  I’m not saying that many of…

We make Christmas to so many things that it is not.  It can become the most frustrating time of the year instead of the most wonderful time of the year.  But, Christmas isn’t candy canes and popcorn put on strings.  It isn’t mounds of presents and twinkling lights on every tree in the neighborhood. Christmas…

Losing someone you love is never an easy thing to bear, but it is even more difficult when it happens near the holidays.  I lost my sister, my last sibling, last year a week before Thanksgiving.  It was totally unexpected and all happened so fast.  Actually, I was at the Cleveland Clinic having surgery the…
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