“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please…
“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19, NIV84) Every now and again, you experience a day that is so incredibly perfect, you just can’t talk about it right away. It’s the kind of day you just have to treasure until you get enough distance that talking about…
I spent most of the late afternoon and evening at a friend’s house for Thanksgiving this year; it was definitely a contrast to last Thanksgiving, which I spent by myself with a box of Stovetop stuffing and a stack of movies. There were good things about Thanksgiving Day last year: silence and solitude are gifts…
