Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas?

Google’s illustration yesterday kicked off Christmas Eve 2013 with a bucolic scene of a couple in a horse-drawn sleigh making their way through a snowy, winter wonderland.  It was their way of avoiding a “war on Christmas rumpus”.  If you hovered over the image with your mouse, the caption said “Happy Holidays from Google”.  If …

DayBreaks for 12/23/13 – When God Put His Son in Our Arms

(Excerpt) – “We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat Erik in a high chair and noticed everyone was quietly sitting and talking. Suddenly, Erik squealed with glee and said, ‘Hi.’ He pounded his fat baby hands on the high chair tray. His eyes were crinkled in laughter and his mouth …

God’s Cricket Chorus

Psalm 96 says “Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth … Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad … Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;  let all the trees of the forest sing for joy. There is something soothing about listening to crickets …