Author: Emily Chase

  Advent is a time of anticipation. I hope you look forward to these devotional thoughts each day.   Our 3-year-old grandson in Texas has been anticipating a visit from his grandparents. For days, our son has told Simeon, “Gramma and Grampa are coming!” Tim helped Simeon make a paper chain to count the days …

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.  It was a once in a lifetime event, something for which he became world famous and has long been remembered. Few of us are destined for such fame.  We are not going to be known all over the world like Neil Armstrong.  We will lead routine lives of faithfulness …

Advent reminds us that we need to prepare our hearts for Christmas.  I hope these daily devotionals are helping you understand a small portion of what Mary must have experienced as she carried the Christ child within her womb.   When Mary told Joseph that she was pregnant, he planned to divorce her. Mary felt …

You’re back! Thank you for returning to my blog for another Advent devotional. And if you are new, all the earlier devotionals are listed below.   When I worked with single moms at a pregnancy center, there was one word that described every one of them: Busy! Teen moms were trying to balance keeping up …

  Many of you have been coming back daily to participate in this Chase family celebration of Advent. I am glad. For those of you who are new, we have been looking at the powerful emotions that Mary experienced during the nine months of her pregnancy as she anticipated the birth of Jesus.   A …

  Welcome to Day 4 of the Chase family celebration of Advent! Join us as we look at the powerful emotions that Mary experienced during the nine months of her pregnancy as she anticipated the birth of Jesus.   How did Mary feel right after the angel disappeared? What did she see when she opened …

    Welcome to Day 3 of the Chase family celebration of Advent! Join us as we look at the powerful emotions that Mary experienced during the nine months of her pregnancy as she anticipated the birth of Jesus.   At the time when Gabriel appeared to Mary, to her knowledge angels had not appeared …

  Welcome to Day 2 of the Chase family celebration of Advent! Join us as we look at the powerful emotions that Mary experienced during the nine months of her pregnancy as she anticipated the birth of Jesus.   Before that angel appeared, Mary’s life was running in neutral. Luke doesn’t give a clue where …

Welcome to the Chase family celebration of Advent – 24 days of devotional thoughts leading up to Christmas. This tradition has gone on in our home for over thirty years but this is the first time I am sharing the tradition with a larger circle of friends and colleagues by means of my website.  Each …