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    Twenty-Five Days Around the Manger
    Twenty-Five Days Around the Manger
    Twenty-Five Days Around the Manger
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    Twenty-Five Days Around the Manger

    By Marty Magee

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    Will a purple bedroom help Marty’s misgivings about Christmas?
    As a kid, Martha Evans didn’t like Christmas. Sixty years later, she still gets a little uneasy when this holiday on steroids rolls around. But she knows, when all the tinsel is pulled away, Whose Day it is. She also now is blessed with five grandchildren who help her not take herself too seriously.
    Do you know the angel named Herald? Will young Marty survive the embarrassment of her Charley Brown Christmas tree? And by the way, where’s the line to see Jesus?
    Twenty-Five Days Around the Manger goes from Marty's mother as a little girl awaiting her brother’s arrival, to O Holy Night when our souls finally are able to feel their full worth.
    This and much more. Join Marty around the manger every day this Advent season. For all ages. In full color for those with color readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Tree Publishing
    Release dateOct 21, 2016
    ISBN9780995454910
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      Twenty-Five Days Around the Manger - Marty Magee

      About the book

      Will a purple bedroom help Marty's misgivings about Christmas?

      As a kid, Martha Evans didn't like Christmas. Sixty years later, she still gets a little uneasy when this holiday on steroids rolls around. But she knows, when all the tinsel is pulled away, Whose Day it is. She also now is blessed with five grandchildren who help her not take herself too seriously.

      Do you know the angel named Herald? Will young Marty survive the embarrassment of her Charley Brown Christmas tree? And by the way, where's the line to see Jesus?

      Twenty-Five Days Around the Manger goes from Marty's mother as a little girl awaiting her brother's arrival, to O Holy Night when our souls finally are able to feel their full worth.

      This and much more. Join Marty around the manger every day this Advent season. For all ages. In full color for those with color readers.

      Twenty-Five Days

      Around the Manger

      A Light Family Advent Devotional

      Copyright ©2016 Marty Magee

      First published as a full color paperback 2013

      by Rickety Bridge Publishing

      Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4923-2480-5

      This revised eBook ISBN: 978-0-9954549-1-0

      Published by

      White Tree Publishing

      Bristol

      UNITED KINGDOM

      wtpbristol@gmail.com

      www.whitetreepublishing.com

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner of this abridged edition.

      Bible quotations are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation

      More Books from White Tree Publishing

      on the White Tree website www.whitetreepublishing.com

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover

      About this Book

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Tribute

      Days of December:

      1. Long Expected

      2. Does Your Road Ever Get Weary?

      3. Tang Jars and Fine China

      4. Ebenezer Was No Scrooge

      5. What's the Big Deal about Herald?

      6. Our Charley Brown Christmas Tree

      7. Dwelling Among us

      8. Green Beans and God's Love

      9. Remembering Stuff

      10. Henry and Me

      11. One Day

      12. The Always Christmas Light

      13. A Red Scofield Bible and a Purple Bedroom

      14. Old Man Pulliam's Horse

      15. Better than Sugarplums

      16. Who's Leon?

      17. We're Runnin' Out of Wood, Lord

      18. What's All the Commotion?

      19. No Crib for a Bed

      20. Our Baby King

      21. Where's the Line to See Jesus?

      22. I Know the Author

      23. Persimmon Cookies or Florence

      24. A Baby Changes Everything

      25. Finally, the Soul Felt Its Worth

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      About White Tree Publishing

      Christian Non-Fiction

      Christian Fiction

      Younger readers

      Acknowledgments

      Thanks to:

      David, who buys me the tools I need to write, encourages me -- and makes sure I don't take myself too seriously.

      My Mother, Georgia Aker, who takes up the slack at the Magee house in so many ways.

      Jo Bond, my sister, friend, editor, ideas person and supporter.

      Denise Arzoian, my fellow writer, best friend and one who helps keep me accountable.

      Chris, my editor and so much more.

      My daughter, Jennifer, who years ago told me I could write.

      My daughter, Judy Jo, my quiet encourager.

      My friends, too numerous to mention, who have said, When is your next book coming out?

      My cousin, Judy Gail, who not only reads my manuscripts, but helps and prays me through other areas of my life so I can get back to writing.

      My friend and former youth director, Waudell Maple, who taught me Scripture, builds me up, and even read the first draft of this book and was loving enough to say, Start over; it's not your best work.

      About the Author

      Marty Magee sold her first article at fifty and published her first book, Ebenezer and Ninety-Eight Friends, at sixty.

      She sometimes plays the piano for church. She has written plays for churches.

      At sixteen, the Scriptures she'd learned as a child came alive. Never since that day over fifty years ago has she doubted the lasting work of God in her life.

      Marty and her husband, David, retired in Mill City, Oregon, near two of their grandchildren. Her other three grandchildren live in Perth, Australia. Her 101-year-old mom acts as one of Marty's loving critics and encouragers.

      Tribute

      To My Favorite Chicken Thief

      Little Georgia Lou's father had an old car in the yard. It didn't run, but didn't have to for her purpose. Georgia Lou excused herself from the breakfast table. She quickly did her chores so she could go out and get in the car. She took her hymnbook, rolled the windows up and sang to the top of her lungs, Let the Lower Lights Be Burning. This and other old (yes, they probably were old even then) hymns kept her occupied much of the morning. Looking for cheap entertainment for your kids? Keep your old clunker and purchase a used hymnal.

      But yes, as she grew, she became a little wild, as teens will do. It was Halloween night. She and a few friends found an old, dark farmhouse. And there it was, a chicken coop. They couldn't help themselves. It simply was too easy. One of them (surely not my mother) grabbed a hen through the fence. They went to a vacant lot and built a fire. They then cooked and tried to eat the chicken. That was the toughest chicken I've ever eaten -- before or since. With that, I think she learned her lesson. For the next eighty years plus, she has been an upstanding, law-abiding citizen.

      Mother and I

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