Blog“Just Over the Hilltop”

Last night my wife and I were both cast down for the same reason (which I will not discuss), and engaged in a pity party for a couple of hours. Normally, when one of us is down, the other helps to lift us up. But that did not happen last night. I am not sure…

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Back in 1999, we gave my parents a 5oth wedding anniversary party.  One of the gifts to them was a video of pictures taken throughout the years set to favorite background music.  After the wonderful celebration, I was reflecting and wrote the following that had transpired while putting the pictures together.  I hope it resonates…

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      The so-called Christmas season has begun. I say “so-called” because it is somewhat indefinite in scope, and undefined in extent. But, a little like the change of the wind toward the end of The Lord of the Rings, there is a subtle change in these days that begins to arouse an expectancy…

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     It is sometimes grumbled among Christians that the focus on “Baby Jesus” at Christmastime is misplaced – that it was the God-Man Jesus, not the Baby, that provided the salvation so desperately needed by mankind. There is a certain sourness about that attitude that ought to warn us that something is wrong. For…

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