Does weather affect your moods or do you go sailing through the seasons undaunted by snow, rain, or cold? Do you prefer balmy temperatures year round and escape to sunny places when possible? Or, does cold weather give you energy and pep and you love to see a bountiful snowfall? Wind blows the vines outside […]
Dec 27, 2025
Wicked Weather
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Arkansas weather, much like Oklahoma’s weather, is deceptive. It’s hard to believe that tomorrow the temperature will climb to seventy-two, then drop fifty degrees to a bone-chilling twenty-two Sunday night. Weather is changeable; you can’t count on it remaining one way or the other for very long. Do you leave Christmas decorations up past December […]
Dec 26, 2025
The Day After Christmas
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And now, mail resumes, banks re-open, people go back to work, and I’m grateful for another wonderful Christmas with my family. In many countries, this is Boxing Day, and I don’t mean it’s a time when we put on gloves and solve all our differences with combat. The day after Christmas is a day when […]
Dec 25, 2025
Christmas Day
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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6). Merry Christmas!
Dec 24, 2025
Christmas Eve
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I woke up this morning and sprang from my bed, with thoughts of a busy day rife in my head. Now on with the coffee, it’s hot and it’s strong; (I’ll sing as I work, a good Christmas song.) Quick, to the kitchen I go in a hurry; from counter to stove top I scoot […]
Dec 23, 2025
Did the Innkeeper Ever Know?
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The Bible says simply, “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). I like to imagine the principal people involved in how the Lord Jesus came to be born in a stable, […]
