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12 Pearls of Christmas: Wondrous Mystery

Susan December 23, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

Magnificat
by Anna Joujan

Holy.
Holy. Holy is the Lord. The familiar catch of breath. The sting in the
eyes. And the tears begin to flow with the falling rain. Or do the
tears fall with the flowing rain. What is it in these words that I
whisper that wrenches at my heart so?

12 Pearls of Christmas: God Intervenes

Susan December 20, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

The Answer
by Susan May Warren

Whos, Here, we are Whos here, smaller than the eye can see. Whos here, we are Whos here, I’m a Who and so is she…

I’ve always wanted to live in a musical. When I was a kid, I loved Oklahoma, Sound of Music,

12 Pearls of Christmas: He is Always Enough

Susan December 19, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

Christmas in a Barn
by Mary DeMuth

The
Christmas of 2006 we were homeless. We didn't have keys. Not to a car,
not to a home. We'd flown halfway around the world, leaving behind a
ministry we toiled over. Much, particularly in our hearts, lay in ruins.Read More

12 Pearls of Christmas: Faith, Hope & Love

Susan December 18, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

The Pearls We Pass Down

by Holley Gerth

Ten years ago my Grandma Frances went home to heaven in her sleep just before Christmas.

My
Grandpa carefully handed me a brightly-wrapped box on Christmas morning
and said, "This is her gift. Now I want you to have it."

12 Pearls of Christmas: God Provides a Way

Susan December 17, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

A Long Ago Christmas Memory
by Patricia Crisafulli

The
old farm on a dirt road in the backwoods of northern New York State was
described to me so many times, I can imagine the place, even though I
never saw it: the big frame house with the wide porch,

12 Pearls of Christmas: Jesus Comforts

Susan December 16, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

How to Cope with Christmas
by Stacie Ruth Stoelting

Last
night, I dreamed that God resurrected my beautiful adopted aunt, Mary
Jo Hoffman. But morning renewed my mourning for her: Christmas trees,
snow globes, and music greeted my grieving heart. Relate?

In
previous years,

12 Pearls of Christmas: Just God

Susan December 15, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

A Tangible Reminder
by Mary Byers

Last year I read Me, Myself, & Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables
by Phil Vischer, creator of the Veggie Tales video series. I was
interested because my children grew up on Veggie Tales. But I was also
interested because somewhere along the way I noticed Phil Vischer was
no longer with Big Idea,

12 Pearls of Christmas: Home

Susan December 14, 2009 Good Stuff, Thoughts on God

COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
by Virelle Kidder

My
mother had remarkable zeal for Christmas. Weeks in advance, she would
come home from teaching school and bake late into the night. The https://www.elmarair.com/ helped
clean the house and decorate the tree while my older brother Roger
wired the house with Christmas lights,

12 Pearls of Christmas: Life Beautiful

Susan December 13, 2009 Good Stuff

Life Beautiful
by Margaret McSweeney

During
a quiet moment after Thanksgiving, I started reading my parents' stack
of love letters that I recently found in a storage box. As a Christmas
gift to you, I would like to share my father's words to my mother
written to her during Christmas 1949.

Clearly there's been a misunderstanding here …

Susan December 12, 2009 Good Stuff, Just for Fun

I’m just sayin’, it’s not fair.

I’m going to lodge a formal complaint with the bureau of weather management in Heaven.

I think there’s been a misunderstanding.

See, I live in Grand Marais, 30 miles from the Canadian border, next to the coldest lake in America.

And,

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