By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer With the change of the calendar comes the almost irresistible urge to change other things in our lives. Not light bulbs, sheets, or towels, but things like habits, reactions, and goals. I’ll not use the phrase New Year’s resolution due to my experience as
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer May every good and perfect gift be yours this Christmas. How can that be possible, you say, when hearts are breaking and things are such a mess? Because God is good and perfect, and His gifts reflect His character. He does not change. So
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer The parent of a young child told me last week that this year’s Christmas-tree decorating experience was the best ever. Why? Because the parent discovered that the tree didn’t have to be perfect. At least not in anyone’s eyes but the child’s. Ornaments were left where the youngster
Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer Mother used to say, “Red sky at morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, sailor’s delight.” Not that we were sailors. We were not. We were farmers. But farmers get to see those red skies hemming the horizon because they’re up early in the
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer A couple thousand years ago, God told a young Jewish girl named Mary that she would give birth to His son, the Messiah, conceived by the Holy Spirit. That’s quite a life-changing announcement. But do you think He told her that she’d have the
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer ‘Tis the season of giving, right? Or is it the season of getting? “Six o’ one, half dozen of the other,” Mama used to say. But always she added, “We give at Christmas because God gave us Jesus.” I grew up hearing that and
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer Tomorrow is National Cookie Day. I am certain the day of national recognition was determined with me in mind. As far as I’m concerned, Cookie Day is right up there with Mother’s Day and birthdays. I can easily turn down pie or cake. Doughnuts
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer Other than his ma, he’d never given a woman anything but a hard time. –Wil Bergman, Snow Angel Christmas-gift shopping is often a man’s least-favorite activity. I speak from the experience of living with a husband and son. To be completely transparent, I speak
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer Thanksgiving Day is fast approaching. Many people are busy cooking, cleaning, and preparing for a big family feed. Others are wondering who they’ll spend the day with, or they’re missing lost loved ones. Some are dreading the pending presence of a certain relative or
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer I knitted once. Many years ago, I needled my way through a scarf for my soon-to-be-husband, hoping to keep him warm in Colorado’s snowy clime while I wintered in temperate California. That scarf was the extent of my knitting career. When I started writing