Sitting in the lap of the King

This week in the advent calendar is Joy… it’s a word I have long struggled to explain or even comprehend. Joy has become synonymous with happy and yet in my own experiences of joy it hasn’t felt like happy. While I lived in Austria I experienced a time that many poets call the dark nightContinue reading “Sitting in the lap of the King”

A single light

It is Christmas eve. I love this particular holiday. This year we gifted the whole family with a new puppy named Max. He’s a joy to have in the house but he is a puppy and he can be rambunctious; lots of walks are needed to keep him at a good level of sane whileContinue reading “A single light”

Always in Advent

Hope, longing, anticipation, and preparation. As we prepare for Christmas we walk through the steps of preparing for the King to come. Not Santa, not presents, but the King. How wrong do we get this every year? How many of us lose our focus and buy into the commercialism that the media and society pushContinue reading “Always in Advent”