Monthly Archive: December 2025

Our blended family raised four humans to adulthood, their range of ages now being almost 20 to nearing 40, and I used to think the hardest ages were easily defined. […]

We all long for a deliverer, at least once in a while: someone to untangle a problem we cannot resolve, someone to provide a haven when we are weary, someone […]

Money is fake. (Hear me out.) It’s an imaginary language we invented to communicate our needs and desires and their respective values.   Hear this, you that trample on the […]

The ideas that come out of your sleep have the benefit of not going through all your filters that push aside your biggest thoughts. In other words: it’s one of […]

Hey Countrysiders — It’s here! The December 2025 issue of Countryside Currents is now live on our website! Click here to read or download your copy. Inside this month’s issue:✨ […]

The Social Justice committee has designated the Center for Immigrants and Refugees Advancement (CIRA) as December’s Box recipient. CIRA’s mission is “to empower immigrants and refugees to live confidently through […]

I’d be willing to wager quite a bit that: (1) you haven’t read much of Malachi before, and (2) you’ve sung chunks of it a million times. In many Christian Bibles, it’s the last book before the […]