Category: Devotions
Starting Over when it’s Not My Idea…
Fresh Start, Redo, Starting Over… It sounds good when it’s your idea. But when it isn’t your idea, well that’s a different story.
Starting over when someone decides they don’t love you anymore… The job you are working at doesn’t work out… Or God tells you to move when you’re perfectly content where you are…
None of these fresh starts sound fun. They don’t fit into anyone’s plans.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t fit into God’s plans.
He knows they serve a purpose. His purpose.
God knew the heartache was coming. The layoff was on its way. The breakup. Even the guy who swerved in front of you, causing you to be late for the important meeting.
A Different Christmas Perspective

This year, I’ve asked my mother, Anne Boulier to write the Christmas Devotional. I’m so glad I did because it’s a wonderfully different perspective of Christmas. A thoughtful reminder of why Christmas is a choice to make EVERY year.
Please enjoy!
Christmas – it’s a time of year that brings joy and sadness for many. We celebrate the birth of the One who loves us most – He did, after all, come to die for us just 33 short years after His miraculous birth. For some, it’s a time of sadness because of loved ones who are no longer a part of the season. For some, it’s a time of sadness because of lost expectations for a better life – a better time to come.
Christmas, I have learned in my 68 years of ups and downs is what I decide to make it.
Yes, Christmas is a choice. I can choose to dwell on the ones who are no longer here to share the traditions I carry on in celebration of the season. I can dwell on the hard times, as yet unanswered prayers, disappointments, sickness – anything I want.