In order to make the most of Advent this year, each day I have posted on my public Facebook page a blessing from God I am grateful for. I was surprised and ashamed some days on how hard I had to think to arrive at some blessing, without resorting to naming separately every fattening food …

Several years ago our friends Lynda and Tom added Daniel to their family. Mira, their miracle baby, had kept Lynda on total bed rest for most of her pregnancy. And so Daniel arrived from Ethiopia and transformed their family. Now they are living in Ethiopia, teaching and loving and living life as God has called …

It’s December, and that means the all-Christmas-music-all-the-time radio station is on in my car. I love this time of year, and I love all types of Christmas music, from the silly to the sacred. (Okay, I have to admit that I abhor “The Holly and the Ivy,” which makes no sense to me, doesn’t rhyme, …