For years a few of my family, friends and I have made fun of this song. As I think about it now, I’m not quite sure exactly why, except to say it has a redundancy about it. The same phrase is said over and over again. However, this year I heard it sung by Pentatonix and for the first time, I actually listened to all the lyrics. And it was quite moving. “Mary, did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water… would save our sons and daughters…the child that you deli

I haven’t been able to walk down a set of stairs for over a week. I can go up; I just can’t go down…without experiencing a great deal of pain. But as I think about it, I’m absolutely fine and okay that I can’t do it. Because this pain reminds me of the fabulous joy that I’ve been experiencing. I tore both my meniscus several years back. The right one from jumping on a trampoline, the left one from line dancing. It’s left me with a bit of discomfort and limitations. I can’t ru

There was a radio show that my parents and, eventually, I listened to called “The Rest of the Story.” It was hosted by Paul Harvey and was broadcast daily. He would tell short, true stories with a surprise twist at the end. And every time he got to that end, there could almost be heard a global gasp. Because you just didn’t see it coming but once you heard it, it all suddenly made sense. It’s Christmas and I’m in the throws of our annual Ultimate Christmas Party. Not only joi