The Christmas Story: What Goes Without Being Said

The 7 or so weeks that end the year constitute my family’s favorite season: It’s Christmas time and a great reason to review the biblical accounts of Jesus’ birth. We milk the season for all its glory.  My wife collects…. can you guess what? Read the Christmas Story for the First Time In the last few years, I’ve been learning to…

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The Advent: Behold the Magi

This is the fourth of 4 Christmas-related posts that have little to do with seers, aside from the fact that the Christmas story includes people who saw angels.  I hope you enjoy them.  This was published on my friend Natalina’s site. You can read it here (her artwork is better than mine!): http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/behold-the-magi-from-the-east/

The Advent – “Hark,” the Herald Angel Sang

This is a fictionalized account of the Shepherds the night Jesus was born. “The wolves are out tonight.” For a shepherd, there was no greater danger, no greater risk to life and limb.  In this case, the warning was taken both figuratively and literally. Yes, the wolves were out. Their howls carried on the wind. But the greater danger lay…

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Advent Part 2 – Come and Feed

This is the second of 4 Christmas-related posts that have little to do with seers, aside from the fact that the Christmas story includes people who saw angels.  I hope you enjoy them.  There are lots of memes floating around about Christmas being rooted in paganism or commercialism or whatever, and debates continue whether Christians should celebrate it and how…

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The Advent – Family Ties at Christmas

For many, Christmas is a time of tension amidst family members who don’t see each other often. In fact, this “tradition” begins with Mary and Joseph visiting Joseph’s family in Bethlehem. The Traditional Story is Unrealistically Silly The traditional story has Joseph traveling to Bethlehem alone with a very pregnant wife, who goes into labor as they enter town. They…

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Christmas: The Greatest Story of Seers Ever!

What do Mary (the mother of Jesus), Joseph (the adopted father of Jesus), a bunch of shepherds and magi have in common? Besides being on every Nativity scene in the world, I mean. They all could see!  Each of them, at least for a limited time, was granted the spiritual gift to actually see and hear angels. The Christmas story…

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Seer Children and Santa

When my wife and I realized our daughter could see spirits and things in the spirit realm that we could not see, we didn’t immediately realize the conundrum regarding fantasies like Santa, the Easter bunny, and the tooth fairy. How do you handle a child who can see unseen things, which readily leads her to accept the existence of fairies,…

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