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Month: December 2015

Mercy in the Household

We started this blog to tell about the connections and the way our paths cross up here in the North country.  We have so much in common in Minnesota and North Dakota that we took on a joint project to build Project 24 boarding...

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A Cradle In Bethlehem.

[cincopa+AgCAvI96ifGM] A mother rocking a cradle in Bethlehem is the childhood picture we have in our minds of Christmas.  Little girls still want to be Mary in the Christmas program.  The reality of it all is a bit more...

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Mercy and Missions and Martyrs.

The teaching of the Christmas season is love, love in all its glory and wonder, the love of God to man, the love of man to God and in Him to fellowmen. Our constant problem is sin, which in every instance is lack of love, lack...

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Still, Still, Still

[cincopa+AgEAQKNbS7B3] There is an Austrian/German hymn that has always intrigued me.  It is  called Still, Still, Still and like all songs that have to be translated it loses something in the translation.  In fact most English...

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Little Christmas and the 12 Nights.

[cincopa A4EA7KtNGP5U] A few years ago I was invited to something called a “little Christmas”.  It was a gathering before Christmas Eve and there was a lot of wonderful food and drink and a nice atmosphere of...

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