Advent 2024:  Candlelight

Advent Day 16, December 16, 2024 “Light your candles quietly, such candles as you possess, wherever you are.”  Father Alfred Delp If you’ve followed my blog at all these past few years, you can’t miss the fact that I love candlelight. In fact, I deLIGHT in the light, especially in these dark winter months. This morningContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024:  Candlelight”

Loneliness at Christmas

Speaking for myself, two of the loneliest moments in my life occur annually: when I put the Christmas tree up and when I take the Christmas tree down.  It wasn’t always that way, not when I had our two children in the house.  We had a regular method of getting the tree ready:  my husbandContinueContinue reading “Loneliness at Christmas”