Category Archives: 2023

So Far

I am sharing in part with you a letter I have written for this Season that the world and Christians are celebrating alike.  That in and of itself is a reason for my letter. 

It has been many years in the learning and walking it out here that I have come to believe the Christmas Traditions of man do not honor or represent The Birth of Messiah and I have come to find them unworthy of practice for me.
Even so, I am eager to acknowledge and celebrate daily that JESUS The CHRIST was born here for us – likely in September or October, not December 25; but He came all the same.

He came, leaving Heaven, and lowered Himself to be born a human! Wow! GOD BECAME A MAN!
He is the ONLY sinless human to ever be born!  The ONLY GOD MAN! He walked here on earth and never sinned – never harmed anyone – ever! And then added to all that, He died a death we cannot fathom; our finite minds just cannot fully comprehend this BUT we can believe Him. By His Grace, we do believe HIM.

And then! On the Third Day, He breathed Earth’s air again! Laying on that cold, hard slab of stone, in that same human body, The GODMAN breathed again! to never die again!
ONLY GOD! Only GOD could love us fallen humans so much!

So since the traditional Christmas trappings and trees with elaborate decorating, and greetings said everywhere to everyone that means absolutely nothing holy do not now rest well with my soul, I have abandoned all but a few things, like gatherings with family and friends to share fellowship, and special foods and gifts that say I love you and I think you could use this in JESUS’ Name.
Even if you do not understand or agree with me, I figure you do understand I’m not trying to be difficult, I’m just trying to honor My JESUS the best way I know how for who HE has brought me to be so far.

So let us celebrate LIFE, the lives we now live, and THE LIFE of THE ONE Advent+Week+2-2508622680Who makes our lives worth living, now and forever.
Blessed be The Name of The LORD!!
Worship, Sing, Laugh, Feast, Pray, Proclaim The GOOD NEWS — JESUS SAVES those who turn from their sins to HIM in TRUSTING FAITH. 

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Kathie Whitestone Thompson

Think Long

This holiday season of December 2023, I hope you will think long on this FACT: He came and He IS coming again.

He came first to earth as you and I arrived here, He was born, with one exception: He IS the One and Only GODMAN, for eternity to come, and since that night on whatever day it was that He was born in that cave for sacrificial lambs and Mary laid Him in a feeding trough. (Please don’t let me be misunderstood here, He has ALWAYS been GOD, but He was not MAN until He was born into the womb of Mary. )

I think our attention is misplaced if we focus our celebrating at a manger nativity.
(I mean we don’t show up at our birthday celebrations in our newborn attire, do we?)

To find JESUS, look to The Scriptures!
Let us search for Him in the Scriptures as diligently as the Wise Men looked for Him.
By the way, they learned of His Coming from the Scriptures.
Let us make it our aim to search the Scriptures this holiday season.
Let us make it our mission to see JESUS in the Scriptures.
Watch Him live.
Watch Him die.
Watch Him rise again.
Watch Him ascend to His Father.
Be watching for Him to come again — every day.

I don’t know what December 2023 will bring for us here at The White Stone Blog but please let it be for JESUS, for His honor, for His glory, for His Kingdom.

Pray for me this holiday season that I will not dishonor My LORD.
Amen and amen.

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Kathie Whitestone Thompson

December 2023

Day 30

We made it!

Tomorrow, LORD willing, we will set face and foot onto a new calendar page — December 2023.
What will we see, what will we walk through in December 2023?  Not one of us knows.
BUT GOD.
Two of the most beautiful words ever!

BUT GOD!

I am giving thanks for BUT GOD.

This could have happened, this would have happened, this did happen BUT GOD!

Do you know what I mean?
Because if you do, you are giving thanks for BUT GOD too!

Pray your way through December 2023.

Second-Coming-christ-800x447-4176922689Because HE came & IS coming again,
Kathie Whitestone Thompson