Month: December 2015
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Bean By Bean – A Mother’s Look Back on 2015
Earlier this year I calculated my life in days. I estimated that if I live to a little over 80, the total amount of days would amount to roughly 30,000. I then did something what a couple of my family members consider morbid. I took two big glass jars and filled them with 30,000 […]
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Small Deeds
(My son posted this yesterday on his Facebook after he received something at work. It strikes me how easy it is to make someone’s day a little brighter, especially this time of year. It has been an encouragement for me to seek for opportunities of small acts of kindness. We serve a God who can […]
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Choosing to Remember
Tomorrow, we are going to get the tree. We are going to do what we have done for years as a family, walk all over the tree farm and spy out the perfect one. We may fuss a little and bicker a while before my husband will put the ax to the trunk and drag […]
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The Cloth
In plain white cloth of earthen yarn They wrapped Him after He was born. A wooden manger held Him here, God’s precious Son, the Kingdom’s heir. A Friend of Man and Heart of God, There in this earth’s brown, filthy sod, He lay and let this world behold The plan of God for man unfold. […]
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The Key
27 years ago this Christmas, my husband and I boarded a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Detroit, only 5 days after Flight 103 exploded on the same route over Lockerbie, Scotland. We just married that summer and were much more adventurous than wise. I was leaving my home and family to start a […]
Heidi Viars 