Sunday Inspiration: How the Light Comes
While this lovely poem is a blessing meant for Christmas day, I think it’s wonderfully appropriate for the new year, too, and throughout the year. A friend posted it on Facebook and I loved it immediately. How the Light Comes A Blessing for Christmas Day I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I…
Read MoreWish Upon a Star for 2019
I’m at Disney World with my family celebrating our “big” wedding anniversary, as well as all the other end and beginning of the year holidays. Considering where I am, I’m allowed to be a little corny today. So for 2019, in the words of Jiminy Cricket: When you wish upon a star Makes no difference…
Read MoreAnnouncing Our January 2019 Reading Challenge Selection
Happy 2019 everyone! My real New Year post is tomorrow, but since this is the first day of the 2019 Reading Challenge, I wanted to post the January category today. You can find out more about the challenge here. The discussion each month will happen at the Read Along With Emilie Richards Facebook Group, but if…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Mother Teresa
The words below are especially important to me since they were found written on the wall in Mother Teresa’s Home for Children, and our daughter Jessie was one of the children in that home when we adopted her exactly forty years ago. These words also make heartfelt resolutions for the coming year. People are often…
Read MoreReading Challenge 2018: Time for Congratulations
You ask why am I congratulating you? Maybe you only read a couple of books on the reading list, then abandoned the challenge way back in February as too time consuming. Maybe you read the categories that appealed to you but wouldn’t be caught dead reading: A time travel novel A young adult novel A…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “The Work of Christmas”
When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the…
Read MoreThe Christmas Carol: Do We Believe in the Miracle of Transformation?
I love reading about the holiday rituals of my readers. If you follow my Facebook Page you’ve seen discussions about our different rituals there. If you’d like to share yours, please comment below so we can all enjoy them. One of my personal rituals developed on its own, the way the best ones often do.…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: To Give a Gift
“When you give a gift at Christmas and see the smile of the people you love reflected in their faces, that’s magical. It is not about spending a lot of money or buy a gift that is functional, it’s just a way to say I love you. Christmas is a symbol of union and joy,…
Read MoreThe Sweet Spot Between Pride and Guilt
Do you feel like you’ve accomplished enough in your life? Or do you feel as if you never quite got there, or will? I’ll confess I’m firmly in that second category. I don’t care about lists or number of books sold–at least not too much. I don’t care if every reader who picked up one…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Advent is possible
“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer What greatness are you looking forward to this Advent season?
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