Dec 9, 2025
There are days when life feels like the lobby of a Hampton Inn during a cheer competition weekend. Noise. Requests. Chaos. And I’m the tired front-desk clerk trying to act like I have more rooms than I actually do. Then this line from the Christmas story shook...
Dec 7, 2025
We begin the week with a confession: we have confused kindness with compliance. Somewhere along the way, the voice of love got tangled up in the voice of obligation, and we started calling our exhaustion “generosity.” We wore ourselves out and called it holiness. We...
Dec 4, 2025
Scripture: Luke 1:38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me according to your word.” Most of us love the idea of surrender… until it’s our life that’s spinning in a direction we did not choose. Mary’s famous line — “May it be to me according to...
Dec 3, 2025
Scripture: Matthew 1:23 “They will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’).” When Tom travels, the house… shifts. I wouldn’t call it a disaster zone. It’s more of a “light frat house situation.” Nothing dangerous. Nothing truly gross. Just… a loosening of...
Dec 2, 2025
Scripture: Matthew 1:19 “Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.” Have you ever been standing in a line somewhere — Costco, Target, the DMV — and suddenly had the...
Dec 1, 2025
“Am I the Grinch?” if I feel like I didn’t sign up for this? That life is messy, I’m frustrated, and I don’t quite know how to proceed? Scripture: Luke 1:29 “Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this...
