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Advent: Waiting Like Mary and Joseph
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Advent: Waiting Like Mary and Joseph

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by on Dec 11, 2013 in Featured, Live in Christ
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I have just finished my annual routine of climbing into the attic and hauling out the box that stores our much-used Advent wreath. Candles? Check. Prayers? Check. Matches? We’ll need to get more of those. Like most families, the season of Advent falls right in the middle of a very busy time. School, work, extracurricular […]

The Wait is Almost Over!
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The Wait is Almost Over!

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by on Dec 21, 2011 in Featured, Parenting
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“I can’t take waiting any more!” My nine-year-old son emphatically announced. “I want to open my presents.” “But that is what Advent is for. It is a time of waiting,” I responded, attempting to reinforce a bit of religious instruction in the midst of the whining. “Advent is twenty-eight days of torture!” I don’t think […]