Meditations on ""

Statistics tell us that 7 out of 10 shoppers on Christmas Eve will be men doing panic shopping for those they love.

Christmas decorations have been up for weeks. We don’t know what that will look like this year with pandemic restrictions impacting businesses and our own personal movements.

I wonder what people said on the day that we were born.

For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere this is the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

We are fast approaching the annual celebration of the birth of Jesus, the one God sent to save us and give us new life.

E About eight hundred years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, God foretold His birth through the prophet Isaiah.

S As the Twelve Traditions are read at the meetings we attend, we join the reader on the final phrase with the words, “principles before personalities.

The Christmas season is one that can be filled with wonder.

Step-10 encourages us to regularly take personal inventory and when we are wrong about anything to promptly admit it.

In many places in the Bible we read that God’s love endures forever.

Our self-esteem is based on how we evaluate and see ourselves.

Those of us who have acted on the saying “God could and would, if He were sought” have witnessed the blessing of God in our lives.