Advent Calender Scriptures – 24 Days of the Christmas Story

Today I put together a set of 24 advent calendar scriptures to use with the kids. Each day when they move the counter in their advent calender, etc, there is a little paper with a couple lines of scripture to read. The scriptures tell the Christmas story, a few verses at a time. I heard [...]

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Advent Already!

Because I was so sick on Sunday, I didn’t go to mass, and also didn’t get my advent wreath out and onto the table. I realized yesterday evening, that I STILL haven’t gotten it out! I intend to do that today if I can get my table cleared off, but in the meantime, I thought [...]

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Welcome to Our World

Amy Grant-Welcome to Our World Tears are falling Hearts are breaking How we need to hear from God You’ve been promised We’ve been waiting Welcome, Holy Child Welcome, Holy Child Hope that You don’t Mind our manger How I wish we would have known But long awaited Holy Stranger Make Yourself at home Please make [...]

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My Advent/Christmas Journey – Part 4 Reflection and Photo Session

This year my knowledge and understanding of advent took on a deeper meaning. I was reflecting a lot on two posts I read on other blogs, but especially this line from the first one: That little infant, born to die, is the absolute, final, and only necessary Word. Powerful stuff. 1. The Education of Man [...]

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My Advent/Christmas Journey – Part 1 Christmas Eve

This evening I went Christmas Eve mass. It didn’t work out for me to go with my mom and brother, so instead I left the kids at home and went to the 7 o’clock Mass at our church. My mom doesn’t like that one because it’s usually crowded. It was. I was running a little [...]

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When Everyone, Even God Waited…

Advent is a time of waiting, We’re all waiting for Christ’s birthday, but we also await the day when Christ comes again in glory. However we don’t like waiting. Living in a culture of instant gratification, we are conditioned to believe that waiting is a bad thing, an unfortunate fact of life. We are frustrated [...]

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