Every year like Clark and his family, we load up the family truck and head out “to select the most important of Christmas symbols,” the Beard family Christmas tree. Tree lots or trees in the box don’t do it for us. Nope. We need to do it like our fore-fathers. We get out into theContinueContinue reading “Searching for the Perfect Christmas Tree”
Category Archives: Holidays
To everything there is a season: Sukkot 2017
To everything there is a season… We are in the midst of Sukkot, what Christians might know better from their Sunday school lessons as The Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths. God gives the directions for celebrating in Leviticus 23. 39 “‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gatheredContinueContinue reading “To everything there is a season: Sukkot 2017”
When “why” is silent
Why? Why? Why? Do you ever want to know why? Right now why is on my mind? Why? Well, I think I have an idea at least in this moment, but a lot of times we want to know why and we don’t have an answer. Simon Sinek, the leadership author, tells us what toContinueContinue reading “When “why” is silent”
Playing catch-up: How many holidays in one post?
It’s not your imagination if you’re thinking what in the world happened to Seeking Shalom. This blog just completely disappeared off the map. To our readers, I apologize for two weeks of silence. I have been struggling with auto-immune issues and trying to stay afloat in my grad school responsibilities and Jay has been busyContinueContinue reading “Playing catch-up: How many holidays in one post?”
That Shalom Life 