If favorite books in the Bible can be judged by the amount of underlining, highlighting and note-taking, mine is Philippians.

The first thing I have underlined is v.1:6 -

Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it out to completion until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The note that I have in the margin reminds me that Paul was in prison when he wrote this – and still he wrote of peace and joy, surety and grace.

I am reminded that for the “remnant”, persecution brings strength. There are places in this world where Christians are truly persecuted – tortured and killed; fired from their jobs. They watch their families tormented.

And still they praise our God. May we remember the persecuted church; pray for them daily – pray for strength and courage, pray that God will change the hearts of those to hate them. Pray that God will be glorified in all.

I’m doing something new at work with the “least of these”.

There are a few students in our classroom that are not in the school choir or dance troop. So, I’m in charge of teaching them how to play in a bell choir!

We’re going to play “Jingle Bells” at the holiday concert.