Holidays – Page 2 – Growing Grace-Full

by Linda

Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet

The sun is setting on this March 31st. This is the view outside my sun-room window. It is cold and the wind is calm. We’ve had a foot of this white stuff the past few days. This is the first year I can remember not being able to have an outdoor egg hunt on Easter. […]

by Linda

Treasuring These Days, & Our New Family Photo

Hello friend! Family photos are great. You never know what you are going to get back, and there are always these little tell tales that speak so loudly about this season in life, frozen in time. 🙂 Many thanks to Angela out at Camp Jim for taking our family staff photos and sending me this […]

by Linda

How Putting Up the Christmas Tree Turned into a Teachable Moment

While unplugging and re-plugging light strands, removing and replacing bulbs, and playing with the dimmer switch on these newfangled lights… my kids grasped, for a few moments, how important they are to the Church Body, and to bringing Jesus’ light to the world…. and this teachable moment is one we can refer back to throughout the year, and relive again next Christmas.

by Linda

Growing Grateful, and How to Love Wounded People this Holiday Season

From the bottom of my heart, I am sending you love this Thanksgiving. Whatever your story, whatever your wound, wherever God is in your process, let Thanksgiving become a lifestyle and not a holiday. May you experience the boundless love and comfort of Christ in your life, and the healing that God holds for you and yours. May you experience the wonder and fulfillment of learning to grow grateful, one day at a time.