Today, the day I posted this blog article, is 14 days–exactly two weeks–from Christmas. Are you busy yet? How much are you giving, spending, eating, running, partying, frolicking, and exhausting yourself? Is the Christmas season going too fast for you? I’m trying to take my own advice and pace myself (see the meme I crafted…
It was an ordinary night, dark and quiet and clear. The dust-covered shepherds were standing around a small fire, talking about their day. They smelled like dirty sheep. As they talked, they looked around occasionally for wolves, thieves or other predators who might try to sneak into their sheepfold and steal some lambs. The oldest…
32 Christmas Holiday Self-Questions (one for each day from the day after Thanksgiving until Christmas) for Single Christians to answer, copy, paste, and circulate for fun! To see my answers, you’ll have to go to my blog’s Facebook page! Favorite Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner side dish (not main meat or dessert!): Favorite Christmas scripture: Do…
You hold the door open for the person behind you. They walk through, stone-faced, and say nothing. You return something that the owner dropped. They say “Oh” and walk away, checking it out to make sure it didn’t break. You let someone cut in front of you on the freeway. No nod, no wave, no…
Instead of writing on “spiritual” stuff this weekend, with our Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve holidays fast approaching, I thought I’d give you a few holiday tips & hacks instead. Tips and reminders to make our holidays healthier, happier, simpler. Just for us single Christians. I looked for some feeder articles to start my…
Some Christian singles don’t like to do “this” based on their personalities… they are cautious and intentional about their futures and all the decisions that shape them. They barely have room for spontaneity and this other, additional factor, if at all. At times their faith may freeze as they avoid the inevitable, ignore a possible…
There is a term that has intrigued me since early in my walk as a follower of Christ. No one seems to know who coined the actual term, but it is bandied about by mostly (though not limited to) those of the charismatic and Pentecostal persuasion. However, before I heard about it from them, I…
When I was pondering and praying over what to write for this week, it took me awhile to come up with what I was actually going to say. Sometimes I get ideas from external sources such as current events, sermons fresh or old, or an article I’ve read. Sometimes they come from my own life:…
My post today is a collection of blessings, scriptures, poems, and prayers, dedicated to all my single Christian sisters and brothers who have lost someone near and dear to them through death. Death of a loved one is that inevitable life event that no one wants to go through, but must, to stay in the…
I was thinking about how, a long time ago, I deliberately chose to work in secular settings rather than cloister myself in church or religious settings. I’d hear sermons and stories about how Christians and church staff members would lose touch with unsaved people by surrounding themselves completely with believers, and rarely have an opportunity…
