“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” C.S. Lewis I think every child goes through the stage of being afraid of the dark. I’m reminded of this when my grandchildren come to stay at our house. Darkness not only obscures, but it also distorts. In the darkness we can’t see things for what they are. Normal, everyday objects become monsters and unknown objects of fear. However, a si

John 15:9-17 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no l

Happiness is a feeling, one that can disappear as soon as it comes. Joy, however, is a choice. We have a choice. God gives us a joy that is rooted in Him and is unconquerable. We can choose to live in the attitude of anger, resentment, and fear, or we can choose to hold to and pursue the joy that God promises us. The third Sunday in Advent shifts from a tone of expectation of Christ’s coming to one of rejoicing at the arrival of God’s Kingdom with the coming of Jesus. The Adv

“I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, And in his word I put my hope I wait for the Lord More than watchmen wait for the morning, More than watchmen wait for the morning. Israel, put your hope in the Lord, For with the Lord is unfailing love And with him is full redemption… I pray to God – my life a prayer- And wait for what he’ll say and do.” -Psalm 130 It feels like we’re in an especially great time of waiting to see what God will do… Like the watchmen waiting for the