When my very precocious and oldest son, Geoff was not quite 3 years-old, I decided that he could understand the ‘true meaning of Christmas’.  I began by telling him ‘what if at his third birthday party everyone brought gifts with great hoopla for each other, but no one brought him a gift?’  Scowling deeply, he…

November is the month when we think, perhaps more than other times of the year, just how much we have to be thankful for.   With this all culminating on Thanksgiving Day, we love spending time with family, friends and way too much food!   J   Before my sons left home for school and to start their…

Recently I heard Jill Briscoe tell a story whereby some children at a church in England long ago learned the first phrase of Psalm 23.  They were taught to hold up all their fingers on one hand, and to grab the end of each finger as they recited each word in the phrase – ‘the…