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12 Pearls of Christmas: Just God

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. A Tangible Reminder by Mary Byers Last year I read Me, Myself, & Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Home

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Virelle Kidder My mother had remarkable zeal for Christmas. Weeks in advance, she would come home from [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Life Beautiful

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This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. I’m so excited to be able to feature daily inspirational stories from now until Christmas! Life Beautiful by Margaret McSweeney During a quiet moment after Thanksgiving, I started reading my parents’ stack of love letters that I recently found in [...]

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Christmas Traditions: Creative Gift-Giving

by gidget faith

There’s a lot of talk about gift giving these days, to do or not to do Santa, homemade or store-bought, a lot or a little… Here’s a little glance at how we do it (or rather, are going to do it as some of this is new for us this year). For starters, we aren’t [...]

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Christmas Traditions: Celebrating Advent

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Celebrating Advent Advent is the term that is used to refer to the Christmas season, a season of hope and anticipation, as we await the celebration of the birth of our Savior. There are many ways to celebrate Advent, all of which help focus our thoughts on Jesus rather than the hustle and bustle of [...]

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Retro Reading~ Christmas Manifesto, Part 5

by gidget family

This week I’ve been sharing my thoughts on Christmas. Here are just a few ideas to help you simplify Christmas, and make gift-giving simpler, more sustainable, and/or homemade. Here’s a great starting point for Inexpensive, Creative and Eco-friendly Gift Ideas. We all know babies often love the packaging better than the gift… Check out SimpleMom’s [...]

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Retro Reading~ Christmas Manifesto, Part 4

by gidget faith

This post was originally published August 18, 2008 and has been slightly updated/modified for 2009. Celebrating Christmas We’ve always been as purposeful and personal as possible in gift giving, so our transition to a different way of celebrating Christmas hasn’t been super difficult. I like how McKibben, in Hundred Dollar Holiday, points out that this [...]

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Retro Reading~ Christmas Manifesto, Part 3

by gidget faith

This post was originally published August 16, 2008 and has been slightly updated/modified for 2009. Summary/Review of Hundred Dollar Holiday by Bill McKibben This short book is packed with information! I want to just give an overview here– the book is such quick read that you’d do better to just read it yourself than for [...]

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Retro Reading~ Christmas Manifesto, Part 2

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This post was originally published August 12, 2008 and has been slightly updated/modified for 2009. You can read the re-published version of Part 1 here. When a family close to us decided to stop giving and receiving presents at Christmas a few years ago, I’d say we were surprised (but not really surprised) and in [...]

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Retro Reading~ Christmas Manifesto, Part 1

by gidget life is beautiful

This post was originally published August 11, 2008 and has been slightly updated/modified for 2009. Most of us love Christmas, but it can tend to be a stressful season, too. When we’re deep in the season, with all of the hustle and bustle, there’s often little time for reflection. I thought I’d take this week [...]

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