Wednesday, December 16, 2020 by Ray Coombes In this season, and with this Advent booklet’s theme of “Hope for the Future,” my mom comes to mind. This will be the first Christmas without her as she passed away in March. Her favorite part of the season was the singing of carols as a family when …
Category: Advent 2020
Diary Entry
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 by Jeanne Thiel December 17, 1975 There is nothing much to tell of the last three days. I have been sweating out my first case of dysentery. Tonight, I had the strength to get up, and walk across the street to the tea shop. I asked for a glass of hot …
Do You Know Your “Way” Home?
Monday, December 14, 2020 by Ann McFarland “Will you be home for Christmas?” This has become a common phrase to hear across the phone line each year. The last few years I have been in transit doing overseas missions. Due to this, when asked the above question, I tend to respond with the usual, “I …
Christmas In Clinton
Sunday, December 13, 2020 by Kittie McCool Christmas was always special at our church in Clinton, Indiana. Everyone looked forward to the special music, the beautiful decorations, and the big dinner after the sermon. In 1952 one member of our church, who was a trucker, fell on hard times when his truck broke down and …
Think On These Things
Saturday, December 12, 2020 by Peggy Thiel Advertising jingles and phrases, as annoying as a buzzing fly, often affect our attitudes. For me, the above does it. But one day as I was washing windows in the nice November weather, the peace of the moment started me humming. I admired the powder blue sky, clustered …
Get Behind Me, Satan!
Friday, December 11, 2020 by Shirley Ross The Elders were asked if someone could volunteer to contact the contributors to our Advent devotional. I said that I could contact people, but I couldn’t contribute. No one else volunteered, so I was it. As I was making a list of the ones to contact, I thought, …
A Prayer
Thursday, December 10, 2020 by Beverly Lowe Our Father, Who watches over us, thank You for being with us. Help me to walk in Thy ways so that people will know that I have You in my life. Forgive me as I forgive others. Help me to remember, “Not my will, but Thy will be …
Through the Eyes of A Child
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 by Arthur L. Camp During one Advent, a wee child of three, Crayon in hand, drew the Christ Child for me. Touched by her picture, I pulled the girl near, And asked her of details that I thought unclear. “Each star has two dots – why is it that way?” …
Hanging of the Greens – 1975
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 by Ross Willan I remember well when my young faith crystallized… leaving the enveloping warmth of the sanctuary and stepping out into the chilled, quiet night; the muffled sound of carols from the church; the glow of the stain glass windows; the smell of fresh pine; thinking of my family inside, …
Christmas Came Early This Year
Monday, December 7, 2020 by John Gibson Martha and I have an adult son, Mark, who has been single for over ten years, living by himself. I had prayed off and on for about six of those years that he might find a helpmate. Then I started to pray consistently for the past four years, …