In just a few weeks, we will be celebrating Christmas. I don’t know about you but this year has been difficult and challenging for me. I have never had a more painful and overwhelming season. Yet, in the midst of the darkness, light has continued to push through my most painful moments. At the core of this journey has been my ability to struggle with God. I have asked more questions of Him in this last year than probably all my previous ones combined. No doubt, I have sounded like a child who repeatedly asked the same thing.










All throughout the country, people are experiencing a very hot and dry summer. Many places are experiencing drought conditions and fires are burning thousands of acres. Most of do not enjoy the discomfort heat brings to us and even few of us enjoy the pain that comes from the ashes of destruction. Sounds like gloom and doom doesn’t it?
There is a concept in the journalistic world that is referred to as “white space”. It reflects the amount of white space on a page amidst words, sentences, paragraphs and pictures/photos.
For the hundredth time in the last two months, I have heard stories of how parents of adult children just can’t help but say “I told you so” to their adult children. Over and over again, I hear young adults talk openly about their mistakes but unfortunately, they always seem to have the tag line “and my parents won’t let me forget them!”
Heaven in Her Arms is a book that will show the reader all the many reasons why Mary was selected to be the mother of Jesus.









