You are greatly loved. *** But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.Romans 5:8 NLT *** “You are not defined by your mistakes. You are defined by God. He loves you no matter what.” (unknown) *** And may you have the power to…
Author: Pam R
Living in the New
Blessed is God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One! Because He has raised Jesus the Anointed from death, through His great mercy we have been reborn into a living hope— reborn for an eternal inheritance, held in reserve in heaven, that will never fade or fail.1 Peter 1:3-4 The Voice *** “Remember who…
Now … January
“January is the time to wake up, to reset and refresh.”Unknown *** “January is the soul’s time for deep reflection and quiet transformation.”Fay Collins *** “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the…
Welcome, 2025
*** “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke, poet
Hallelujah!
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie, author *****
The Light of the World
Go back to that night when Divine Light, in order to illumine the darkness of men, tabernacled Himself in the world He had made … The angels and a star caught up in the reflection of that Light, as a torch lighted by a torch, and passed it on to the watchers of sheep and…
Not Alone at All
“Look! The virgin will conceive a child!She will give birth to a son,and they will call him Immanuel,which means ‘God is with us.’”Matthew 1:23 NLT *** *** Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.I will strengthen you and help you.I will hold you up with my victorious…
They Came … and Worshiped
9 After this interview the wise men went their way. And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was. “The words came to rest mean literally ‘came and stood’, and can mean only that the star itself moved to guide…
They Saw … and Followed
1Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod. (Another chronological marker.) *** About that time some wise men from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem, The term “Wise men” [magi] loosely covered a wide variety of men interested in dreams, astrology, magic, books thought to contain mysterious references to the future, and…