Faithful Gifts All Year Round Not Just Christmas
A reader shares a personal shift from exchanging Christmas gifts to giving year round based on need. The family still celebrates Christmas, but gifts are given to meet real needs, spreading generosity beyond December to avoid debt and reflect the season’s broader meaning of giving.
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Number My Days by Rita Friesen Homebodies
Rita Friesen reflects on aging and time as the years slip by from the late fifties to 2010. She recalls family milestones, a wedding, a grandchild’s graduation, and a personal journey with reading, a Kindle, and a course. The piece centers on scripture as lifeblood, God’s faithfulness, and the resolve to number and live each day.
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Following God’s Map Through Life’s Highway
A reflective sermon-like note compares misreading a paper map to ignoring the Bible. It urges using scripture as directions to stay on the straight and narrow, cross life’s bridges, find comfort, and love others, promising safe arrival at Heaven.
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The worst Christmas present ever
A distressed animal rights plea from a dumped animal in Manitoba winter. The narrator describes abandonment, starvation, freezing conditions, and fear, urging readers to consider legal and moral consequences and to spay or neuter pets and never dump animals.
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Manitoba
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