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Baby whisperer

I love this picture. It’s been around so you’ve probably already seen it, but I want to comment on it today. I haven’t seen this as much as Marti has, but she tells me that on at least a couple … Continue reading

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What would we do without Grace?

Elizabeth, our daughter-in-law, has a friend named Grace. They are extremely close — like sisters. For a season, when they were much younger, Grace lived with Elizabeth’s family, so they really are sisters in that they have lived under the … Continue reading

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Special Message from The Catch

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Everybody’s Catch

Ebenezer Scrooge’s first visitor took him back in time for a look into his former life. For Scrooge, as it would be for any of us, this trip was for the purpose of discovering the  choices, both good and bad, … Continue reading

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While there’s still time …

Dead as a door-nail, old Marley. Dickens makes sure we know that, ruling out all possibility of a living door-nail. Marley has to be good and dead, or else the story doesn’t work. The benefit of Jacob Marley’s ghostly visit … Continue reading

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Pleasant Haunts

I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.  May it haunt their houses … Continue reading

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Showers of Blessing

Merry First Monday After Christmas! I love how Christmas is still in the air as the New Year approaches. Celebrating isn’t over yet, especially here in southern California, where the purple San Bernardino Mountains stand out in cold, sunny clarity … Continue reading

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What God wants for Christmas

Marti, Chandler and I were discussing Christmas yesterday when the question came up: “What do you think God would like for Christmas?” and Chandler said, matter-of-factly, as if everyone knew this, that God would like a surfboard. Now before you … Continue reading

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Reflections on the Baby Jesus

The birth of anything is miraculous, but the birth of a human being is exceptionally so, not just because of the wonder of a whole person packed into an infant, but because of what it will become. I’ve done it … Continue reading

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The Courageous Heart

Many times for many people within the Catch community, just waking up in the morning and getting out of bed takes a courageous heart; for others a courageous heart is one that finds its way in the darkness by following … Continue reading

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