Slipping from bush to rock, Buz followed the shepherds. Every once in a while, the shepherds would pause and point to the sky. At last, they stopped in front of a stable in Bethlehem. They spoke and someone inside the stable answered. Then, the shepherds slowly stepped inside. Did Buz dare get closer to these […]
Dec 14, 2013
A Mysterious Hoofprint in the Snow
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A word of warning at the start: This morning my meandering mind can’t seem to settle on one subject. Dozens of thoughts are chasing each other through my head but I’ll capture a few. Maybe settling them down into words will help direct them! In the first place, I neglected to tell you that right […]
Dec 13, 2013
The Gift of Love
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Today’s blog post is an imaginative rendering of what might have gone on in the stable the night that Christ was born. I have not found it written anywhere and it is entirely my own thoughts on what might have been true. “And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, […]
Dec 12, 2013
Precious and Priceless Peace
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The older I get, the more I enjoy the blessing of peace; not just peace, mind you, but peace that comes of being free and contented and pursuing my own dreams. In school, we learned about “pax romana” or the peace that Rome imposed upon conquered nations. That is not peace at all but a seething […]
Dec 9, 2013
A Frozen Sort of Day
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The street in front of my house is mostly packed snow and ice. Schools are dismissed again and the temperature this morning hovers at twenty-four. The sky is only a little darker than the snow, sort of soft gray and there’s no sign of the sun. I’m sure it’s somewhere there in the east, about […]
Dec 8, 2013
Part II–Little Cedar and the Storm of the Century
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With so many animals around his trunk, Little Cedar felt strangely warmed. His friends were depending on him for their very lives. That thought gave Little Cedar an extra surge of courage and he gripped that rock just beneath the soil with determination. The wind and sleet hammered him cruelly. He closed his eyes and […]
