This morning, most Christians attended church services and listened to a reading while today’s purple candle for the fourth week of Advent was lit from the pink “joy” candle that we discussed last week. This purple candle is the Love…
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Back at the beginning of Transitions by The Book, almost twelve years ago, I kept experimenting with a formula that would be predictable and consistent from post to post. I finally decided that each post would contain a story, followed…
This morning, many Christian churches across the land lit the third candle of the Advent season- the Joy candle, also referred to as the Shepherd’s Candle. As you may recall, in most churches this is the pink candle as opposed…
Have you ever seen that carnival game where you are given a mallet and various items pop up from different holes and the object is to beat them back down into the base of the game? There is even a…
Today, we celebrate the second Sunday of the Advent season. As we walked into church this morning, the candle of hope, from the first week of Advent, was already lit. It’s wasn’t too far into the service when a family…
We recently started the season of Advent – last Sunday, in fact. The season of Advent is the beginning of the new liturgical year – the time that we celebrate the upcoming birth of Jesus and His entrance into the…
When I was a very young man, I heard a story from my Dad about a branch of the Toussaint Family that lived somewhere in Indiana. I didn’t learn much about Lowell and Alverta Toussaint as WWII got in the…
It’s Thanksgiving evening. We have just finished our dinner and are taking a rest before the desserts are served. It sure is nice to have the family together. My inbox has been inundated with Black Friday discounts that have already…
Here we are four days away from Thanksgiving and it seems like it’s already over and in the books. My inbox and various print ads are already touting the early Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales and I admit that…