Category Archives: Christmas themed

Another Christmas re-gift, 2022: Once Again to Nabokov

Posted on December 14, 2022 by pbn

  Phyllis Beveridge Nissila 2012…2022  This post first appeared back in 2012, and has been featured several times since, each time for a new reason [and a more fearful season]  in an old story of evil versus good, fear versus … Continue reading →

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A Stack of Seven Fun and Heart-Warming Stories from Christmases Past Redux (and updated in such a time as 2022)

Posted on November 23, 2022 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila To lighten your spirits this holiday season, here is my gift to you: a “stack” of [humor-enriched] posts from Christmases past drawn from family stories.  Enjoy! SUCH A TIME AS 2022 The original introduction with the added … Continue reading →

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“To Serve Man” (No, Not as in the Old Twilight Zone Episode) and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Posted on December 7, 2021 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Old Twilight Zone Episode? See here if you don’t recall, or never knew of, this episode: “It’s a cook book!” They Also Serve Who Keep the Lights On Although it does SEEM like the Twilight Zone these … Continue reading →

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A Little Christmas Present of Encouragements for Christmas, Present

Posted on November 30, 2021 by pbn

Click on the title to open the e-chapbook. For the Workers Late in the Fields          Poems of Encouragement for Such a Time as This              

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Remnant (A Poem for Our Time and the Time to Come)

Posted on December 28, 2020 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings. (Proverbs 25:2) So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.      … Continue reading →

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Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us… (Ephesians 1:4)  For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or … Continue reading →

Posted on December 24, 2020 by pbn | Leave a comment

That First Noel

Posted on December 19, 2020 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila   In the completeness  of time (just in time) He came one night squalling, hungry, swaddled, cradled– and they wondered who they held.

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Another Christmas re-gift: Once Again to Nabokov

Posted on December 11, 2020 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila 2020 This post first appeared back in 2012, and has been featured several times since, each time for a new reason in an old story of evil versus good, fear versus hope, bondage versus freedom, despair versus … Continue reading →

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A Stack of Seven Fun and Heart-Warming Stories from Christmases Past

Posted on December 5, 2020 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila To lighten your spirits this holiday season, here is my gift to you: a “stack” of posts from Christmases past drawn from family stories.  Enjoy!      

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Still. In the Moment. God. (Even in 2020)

Posted on December 1, 2020 by pbn

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila UPDATE December, 2020 This post, first offered in the summer of 2016, is a reminder again today to trust God when it seems the (political) Kraken, “battened” (fattened)  sufficiently on power and greed, has finally surfaced for … Continue reading →

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