Blogging Through the Seasons

My riddles guide with frosty rhyme, To find the presents, one at a time. So listen closely, children dear, My whispers fill the atmosphere. Unravel riddles, solve the quest, And find the gifts, put to the test! When I was a kid, I always looked forward to Christmas...

One of my earliest Christmas memories is of watching the film It’s a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra and starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. It was in black and white, and we would sometimes have to adjust the rabbit ears on our television to watch it with...

Growing up, my perception was that God is distant. God was not involved in my day-to-day affairs. God was simply the God who lived up in heaven and looked down on humanity to record our good deeds and wrongdoings. With this view in mind, a big portion of my day was...

Gifts come in all sizes – little gifts, large gifts, medium-size, and every size in-between. No matter how young or how old you are, receiving gifts is a pleasurable thing. We learn to expect gifts early in life – birthday gifts, gifts when relatives come,...

I grew up in a large city where my local church participated in what we used to call, “Harvest Ingathering.” This was a period of door-to-door solicitation of funds for our international disaster aid program, now known as ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief...

When I was a child, my family and I would go to Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base, in San Diego, to visit at Christmas time. I loved going there to be able to spend time with the Marines and to hear their stories. One person in particular really helped shape my view...