Merry Christmas from a very cold Pennsylvania Christmas Eve.  Hands down, my favorite part of Christmas is the music. I start listening to C...

  I'm reading in Isaiah now, the perfect place to be reading over the Christmas season. In the midst of all the chapters of doom and des...

I don't plan to blog for the rest of December. Unless I can't help myself. Several of you have told me that when I post, you are r...

I shared this article two years ago and am sharing it again as a way to help me focus my attention on Christ this Christmas. I wrote this a...

Continued from yesterday. Mary Magdalene We know little about Mary Magdalene's past except that Jesus healed her from seven d...

Continued from yesterday.  Mary of Bethany We all know the story of Mary and Martha and their sisterly spat on which was most imp...

This article was published in the winter 2016 issue of  Daughters of Promise magazine . Daughters of Promise shares the art, photography,...

The music is one of my favorite parts of the Christmas season. Every year I seem to have a different favorite song, but I always enjoy revis...

Today is a drizzly dreary day, perfect for holing up in the house and working on some Christmas projects. I've been at the sewing mach...

A new week and a new goal - this time baking. For some of you, this week will be busy with Thanksgiving plans. I'm not sure what t...

A friend asked me this past week if I was keeping up with this Christmas countdown and had all my Christmas shopping done. No, not even ...

I hate crowds. And I hate last minute stress. My goal each year is to be finished with Christmas shopping by Thanksgiving. I don't alw...

If you acquired your supplies last week, you probably can't wait to get started. With outdoor work finished, I'm eager to pull ...

Continuing the Christmas Countdown. This week is List Week. In this stage of life, I get very good at making lists, not because of Ch...

This is an index of all the Prepare: A Christmas Countdown posts. Each post contains practical ideas along with insights from Scripture ...

If you are like me, you have not yet caught your breath from last week. Our family was away for a few days, then helped with beef butcher...

For some of you, this week will be a crazy one with travel or hosting guests. I thought our family would have a rather quiet Thanksgiving...

Week Six - Grocery Shopping Week - November 17-22 This week continues our shopping - but this time it is to the grocery store. Shopping...

Week Five - Gift Shopping Week - November 10-15 I made fewer than half of last week's crafting goals. But that is okay. If I would...

Week Four - Craft Week - November 3-8 I don't consider myself a super crafty type person though I do love to sew. But there is some...