The Christmas Table

This Christmas as you sit down at your holiday table surrounded by friends and loved ones; make sure you leave room for Jesus.

Offer thanks for the freedom you experience to be able to celebrate this day.

Never forget our true freedom this day and every day lies in Jesus Christ.  All freedom begins there.

Today, as we commemorate His first coming to earth and await His second coming, let us pray for those less fortunate.

Remember those who are alone this day.  Offer a prayer for the lonely, the disenfranchised, those who have lost loved ones and see an

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Wise Men Still Seek Him-An Eggnog Vignette

There is a dairy in Southwest Virginia, Homestead Creamery, that puts out special Scripture bottles ever holiday season.  The bottles appear around Thanksgiving and continue to be available through December for the current year.

Not all production includes this Scripture bottle so you have to keep an eye out for one.  My favorite is their holiday egg nog.

This year each time I went to the grocery store they were sold out of the eggnog.   One day I went to check, just in case, and lo and behold there were two holiday bottles of eggnog…only two!  I picked them both

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The Fourth Week of Advent-The Greatest Love!

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The Love of Jesus

Is The Greatest Love!

“Oh Come Let Us Adore Him, Christ The King!”  This final week of Advent is saturated with love.  It is the love that Jesus has for you every moment of your life. It is the love that brought Him to this earth in a lowly manger.  It is the love that took Him to the cross to die for you. It is the love that will bring Him back to earth again.

It is the love that has prepared many mansions in heaven for those who love Him.  This is the love

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A Christmas Apron Memory & A Heartfelt Christmas Wish!

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When I was a little girl my Mom made us matching candy cane aprons.  It was so special wearing my matching apron.  Over countless years this apron was worn from Thanksgiving through New Year’s.  Many a Christmas cookie was designed and baked wearing this little apron.

As I hung it up this year I remembered all the wonderful holidays with my family.  Although they are no longer here they live in my heart.

May you and yours make and cherish Christmas memories.

Merry Christmas to each and every one of you.  I wish you the peace and love that this

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Short Takes…For Such A Time As This! Esther 4:14

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Dear Prayer Warriors,

For those of you who are not on certain Social Media sites, I publish “Short Takes” every day.   Below are the takes for last week.   I pray they bless you  and keep you striving toward a full Kingdom walk ‘for such a time as this!’

God Bless,

 Michele

 ~Today is the first day of the rest of your life. What is your plan? Put God first and you will be amazed at the direction He will take you.

~Encourage one another!

~Use encouraging words to bring life to people and situations. There is power in what you

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Daily Inspiration-The Journey of the Magi Toward the Epiphany

The Journey of the Magi

Toward the Epiphany

In reading Daily Guideposts, 2017, I came across a devotional written by Rick Hamlin.  He was sharing about his family tradition of putting up a crèche.  His son, who “…was always a stickler for detail,” set the family tradition so that the wise men did not get put in the manger until January 6, the Epiphany, when they actually visited the Christ child.  Until that time the wise men were placed on a distant table facing the crèche to represent their journey.  In addition, the baby was not placed in the manger

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Merry Christmas!

Gifts

 Isaiah 9:4-7

4 For You have broken the yoke of his burden
And the staff of his shoulder,
The rod of his oppressor,
As in the day of Midian.
5 For every warrior’s sandal from the noisy battle,
And garments rolled in blood,
Will be used for burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace
There will

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