My roots had been ripped apart with each move too many times. I suffered transplant shock. A part of me was left behind. But then, a new friend gave me a lovely plaque: Bloom Where You are Planted. I cried. How, Lord? It hurts too much.

We needed to do this for us. Why? Because Jesus came anyway.

A Love Letter from God 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish

Indeed, the holidays are not easy with chronic pain and fatigue after 50! But we can find ways to do so, even in winter with snow flurries and bitter cold.

Have you ever felt the hair rise up on the back of your neck and experienced a horrible sense of dread you couldn't wait to escape from, but you didn't know why? This season is filled with horror, evil, and the unholy. If it doesn't make you shudder, then you might want to read about some of my spine tinglers, brushes with the unholy, otherworldly beings who come against the Kingdom of God, and that the power of God is greater still.

Yet believers are hoodwinked by the Serpent, who slithers in under the radar, into believing these classes have no religious teachings. Worse yet, some use religious lingo that sounds Christian but is not.