No matter your circumstances, Christmas is the way of hope.
Logical? No, Christmas is illogical. It doesn’t make sense.
Continue Reading “How to Find Christmas Magic When Everything Feels Broken and Hopeless” Christmas reminds us who the stable people are in our lives and who are not.
The first Christmas defines stability, not with theories, but with people.
Step into the scene. The world is tense, turbulent, and uncertain. Yet the characters surrounding Jesus’ birth move forward with steady resolve.
Every one of them shows surprising steadiness amid chaos.
It’s not that different from our moment in history.
Never have so many been so wealthy, and never have so many felt so fragile and anxious.
But the first Christmas still speaks.
Its ordinary participants quietly offer us ingredients for a more stable life.
Continue Reading “How the stable people at the first Christmas stabilize us today” You fear what lies ahead. Why? I am here with you now, and I am with you always. How do you know? The sky, air, light, and creatures mirror my presence.
I formed all of these and surround you every day, calling out to you. Yes, I can manage your cares. Bring them to me. Allow me to help you. Name them and talk with me about each one. Follow me no matter how hard your trials. I love you, and I will lead you through all of them. I will set your feet upon a rock. Let me lift you out of the slimy pit. I will put a new song in your heart. Trust me. Here’s how.
Continue Reading “Overwhelming fear? This phone call from God levels chaos” The 2025 Book of the Year, Paper Girl’s World, is lighting up happiness everywhere.
Crack open Judy Williamson’s 400-page masterpiece, and joy pours out like sunshine through a window you didn’t know was there. One page sends you off to a Mach 2 happy hour on the Concorde. Next, you’re face-to-face with the mist of Iguazu Falls. Then, romance drifts in at three miles an hour on a French canal barge, where even the clocks seem to take a break.
Continue Reading “How Paper Girl’s World Unlocks the Secret to Lasting Happiness” I never expected grief to open the door to such magical visitations after I buried my parents.
I’m not superstitious. But, I believe the supernatural pokes into the everyday world in a wide variety of forms and places.
An unexpected visitor surprised me at my mother’s grave nine years ago.
But a very different visitor appeared to me days after my father died, the one whose image you see to the left on my parents’ gravestone.
I captured this moment on video.
Continue Reading “How Grief Unlocks Hidden Doors to Peace and Growth”