God’s Free Gifts

Wiser it were to welcome and make ours Whatever of good, though small, the Present brings— Kind greetings, sunshine, song of birds, and flowers, With a child’s pure delight in little things. —R.C. Trench Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways,...

This Place of Grace

Until three years ago, the glass of my life was always half empty with a hole at the bottom where everything leaked out. Then, during Advent that year, I began to make a gift list. Not a list of gifts I wanted, a list of gifts I already had—and for which I was...