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Season of Kindness: Holiday Charitable Giving and Volunteering As snowflakes gently float down from the sky and the delicious smell of freshly baked cookies fills the air, we are wrapped up in the charming magic of the holiday season. During … Continue readingSeason of Kindness: Holiday Charitable Giving and Volunteering
From Wood to Wonder: Christmas Gifts Made in the Woodshop Woodworking is a timeless hobby. If you’re an avid woodworker, you have an excellent opportunity to create handmade gifts for your loved ones this holiday season. This month, we’ll explore … Continue readingFrom Wood to Wonder: Christmas Gifts Made in the Woodshop
How To Avoid Getting Regifted Some people are so easy to shop for. The better you know someone, the easier it usually is to get them something that will bring a smile on Christmas morning. The flip side of this … Continue readingHow To Avoid Getting Regifted
You’ve found the perfect gift, one completely appropriate for your loved one. However, you’ve realized that this present also happens to be very difficult to wrap.
Maybe the gift is digital and doesn’t have a physical form. Maybe the gift is oddly shaped and won’t fit in a box or maybe the gift is too big and can’t fit through your door. Here are some ideas about how you can easily “wrap” even the most impossible gift. … Continue readingWrap It Up
Ask any mom what she wants for Christmas and she’ll probably tell you that she wants her kids to be healthy, safe and happy. That being said, moms are people, too. She enjoys receiving Christmas presents as much as anyone else. Let’s take a look at what we can put under the tree for mom this Christmas. … Continue readingChristmas Gift Ideas For Mom
With all of the excesses of the season, there is something to be said for having a bit of enlightened restraint. Our next Virtue of Christmas has a lot to do with one of the primary members of the Nativity Scene. … Continue readingPurely Christmas
Be De-Stressed, Not Distressed On this last Sunday of the year, I hope you will take some time to enjoy the silence we discussed yesterday and take some comfort from the next of our Virtues of Christmas. Tranquillity Tranquillity. Be … Continue readingBe De-Stressed, Not Distressed
The day after Christmas is celebrated in many countries as Boxing Day, but here in America, we’re often either right back to work or right back to the mall to exchange unwanted gifts. How does that fit in with The Virtues of Christmas? … Continue readingBeneficially Busy Boxing Day
And now we come full circle on the Advent wreath. The fourth and final Sunday of this season of penitence and preparation is about God’s love for us and ours for God. This is not romantic, fickle love but rather the steadfast and enduring love of חֶסֶד (chesed) and ἀγάπη (agapē). … Continue readingSunday of Love
In 1843, Charles Dickens introduced us to an infamous miser whose tale of repentance is one of the most memorable and beloved Christmas stories in English literature. … Continue readingFeature Film Friday: Scrooge
