Emily Parke Chase
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 …
Read More Advent 2012 – Day 6Many 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 …
Read More Advent 2012 – Day 5Welcome 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 …
Read More Advent 2012 – Day 4Welcome 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 …
Read More Advent 2012 – Day 3Welcome 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 …
Read More Advent 2012 – Day 2Welcome 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 …
Read More Advent, 2012 – Day 1The grocery store shelves were empty earlier this week. Hurricane Sandy was on its way into our region and local residents had cleared the shelves of emergency items like milk, bread, and bottled water. At places like Home Depot and Lowes demands for sump pumps, generators and batteries outstripped the supply. The newspaper reported …
Read More “Eye of the Storm”My half-hour radio interview on Atlanta radio is now available on-line here. –Emily
Read More Radio interview now availableLast week our local writers’ group gathered for their monthly critique session. To warm up our skills before the critique, our leader gave us a brief writing exercise, challenging us to take a common word associated with the Fall season (cider, cornstalk, pumpkins, etc) and place it in an unusual context. My assigned word was …
Read More Autumn BlessingsJust a quick note here to say that you can hear me being interviewed for a radio program with Dottie Coffman tomorrow, Tuesday Oct. 9. Details are at http://wimoradio.com/wordpress/the-dottie-coffman-show. Feel free to call in and offer a comment!
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