Author: Pam R

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…

“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…

*** “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke, poet

“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie, author *****

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…

“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…

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…

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…

The Voice of the Christ-Child The earth has grown old with its burden of care,But at Christmas it always is young,The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair,And its soul full of music breaks forth on the air,When the song of the Angels is sung. It is coming, old earth, it is coming to-night,On…