– Faith and Family: A Snowy Christmas Play Experience

in the fall of 2025, our church that we attend, Clover Pass Community Church in Ketchikan Alaska, focused on presenting a Christmas paly, as many churches do around Christmas. Our play though was a little different from many others. Our worship director wrote a play that had had a woman and her niece trapped in a cabin because of a snow storm. The lady was training to be a lawyer and her niece was asking her “why we pray in Jesus name”. The woman then shared many of her favorite witnesses (from the Bible) of who Jesus really was. Verses like Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 5:21-43, Matthew 27:54, Isiah 7 and 53, Luke 2:8-20 and the last witness that was called was from John 4:7-42. Every time that a witness was called upon they presented their side of the story. In between the witnesses and the scenes of the cabin, there was a 5 level tree that had several local church choir member singing various songs. There also was a kids choir that sang a few songs also. Many many hours went into the practicing, from the choirs learning the songs to the people stranded in the cabin, to all of the behind the scenes work and people. It took a f ew days to build the tree, took another few to build the cabin. When it was all done, we had 5 performances that were free to attend. It was a successful outreach to our community and many people commented about it and were blessed by attending it. The link for the YouTube video is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUobA2VRDs&t=2s

– The weight of a snowflake

We live in the SE part of Alaska. Often we do not have too bad of winters here, often it may snow a few times during the winter, then the snow melts after a few days or is washed away by rain and warmer temps. That’s a normal winter for us. Well the other day at our house we received over two feet of snow over night, for us, that was a lot. Then I started to think about snow. I’m sure if one did research I’m sure that someone somewhere figured out the weight of a single snowflake. The actual value really isn’t that important for what I feel I need to share today with you. I have seen trees that have had their branches broken off because of the weight of the snow accumulation upon them. I have heard of roofs caving in due to the excess weight of the snow accumulation. Heavy snow falls have caused major accidents and has caused many deaths as well. As I was wondering about a single snow flake,

God spoke to my spirit and shared that just as damaged can be cause by the accumulation of snow, we can harm ourselves as we allow the cares of this world to bring us down, to over tax our lives. Stresses, worries, finances, health concerns, aging parents, family, jobs, car troubles all add to our well being. Little by little they accumulate just like single snowflakes do, they can burden us down until we feel that we have no way out, a place of no escape. DON’T Listen to these LIES, you are of value, as each person is. Talk with someone, a friend, a pastor, a parent, a teacher, a coworker, a family member. Don’t allow the weight of the “snow” in your life to break you,or to pile up and cause you a major avalanche in your well being.

What way is best?

Have you ever looked at the cross roads and ask yourself which way to go? Have you ever listened to bad advice? Maybe this article can help. Please click on the article below, it is from the E-Book, “Reflections”.

What way is best

Whom much is given

What are you responsible for? what have you received? The following link is a chapter from the E-Book “Reflections”.

Whom much is given

Pride

Know someone who is too full of himself? Maybe share this chapter from my wife’s E-Book “Reflections” with them. Please click on the link below to read the article. Thank you.

Pride

Knowing the Truth

This is another chapter in my wife’s E-Book, “Reflections”. Please click on the link below to read the article. Thank you.

Knowing the truth

Free Pictures

clouds-dark-lightning-1118869 As a photographer I usually only like to use my own pictures for various projects. Sometimes that’s not feasible especially in blogs or websites. Up to this point I have only used my pictures , but I wanted to share a site that I just found, in case you’re not a photographer or need a picture that you don’t have access to. The site is Pexels.com they have thousands of public domain pictures that you can use in your blogs, websites or for other use, all free. Yes free is a good thing. Hope this info helps someone out there.