by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 18, 2016 | mercy
In one of last year’s Christmas specials (Call the Midwife, PBS) Sister Monica Joan wandered away from the house where she lived. She had suffered from some form of dementia throughout the story line. So, when she wandered away while suffering from a...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 10, 2016 | mercy
I love how the Christmas narrative in Luke starts with this phrase. As if we are stepping into the story in the middle of the action. (All editors tell writers to do this.) God stepped into the middle of all history in that moment. He hit pause long enough to slip a...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 9, 2016 | mercy
This, Dear Reader, is the tiny tree in the front window of our little cottage this year. Before you start feeling sorry for me because I don’t have an eight-foot Scotch pine, please hold that thought. We’ve had lots of trees over the past forty-two...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 3, 2016 | mercy
We listened to Christmas music when we traveled to Omaha last week, and I hit the skip button when Blue Christmas came on. I didn’t want it to remind my mother this would be her first Christmas in more than 62 years without my dad. I didn’t want the...
