Merry Christmas from our house to yours!"May all who have walked in darkness today welcome the light: Jesus Christ, Emmanuel!"
~Rev. Richard Veras
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from our house to yours!"May all who have walked in darkness today welcome the light: Jesus Christ, Emmanuel!"
~Rev. Richard Veras
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Ryan's letter
This is Ryan's letter to Santa. I wrote it for him yesterday. He said the words and I wrote them on the paper. Then we signed his name together and he drew a picture of a cookie for Santa. There are a few things I really love about this letter because they really are so "Ryan." First, he asks Santa to "hurry up." He just can't wait for Christmas. Secondly, he signed it Ryan Alexander Mr. McGee. This is what he calls himself. These are some of the things about Ryan I don't want to forget.
Monday, December 07, 2009
It's not the heat...
Adam and I enjoyed a sleigh ride in Freeport yesterday. We had a small date mixed with lots of Christmas shopping in which we purchased two items. It was cold. The night before we'd had our first snowfall of the season in Maine and everything was beautiful.
While we waited to get on the sleigh, we took a quick walk to the British store each purchased a Cadbury Crunchie. Yum! Then we got on the sleigh and took the little ride around town. From the website's description we'd exected to see more than the loading docks to the stores in Freeport, so Adam made lots of fun about this. But it was festive and it was really good to be together without the kids.
Poor Adam wasn't wearing a hat. His hat seems to have gone missing since we've moved. When we got back to the car we were pretty frozen and I leaned over and said to him (with the movie Cool Runnings in mind), "It's not the heat, it's the humidity that will kill you." He started laughing and then I asked if there was some idiotic saying that people who live in cold places like Maine say about the cold weather. We came up with nothing.
Does anyone know some really stupid remark that people make to others when it's cold out? Just curious.
While we waited to get on the sleigh, we took a quick walk to the British store each purchased a Cadbury Crunchie. Yum! Then we got on the sleigh and took the little ride around town. From the website's description we'd exected to see more than the loading docks to the stores in Freeport, so Adam made lots of fun about this. But it was festive and it was really good to be together without the kids.
Poor Adam wasn't wearing a hat. His hat seems to have gone missing since we've moved. When we got back to the car we were pretty frozen and I leaned over and said to him (with the movie Cool Runnings in mind), "It's not the heat, it's the humidity that will kill you." He started laughing and then I asked if there was some idiotic saying that people who live in cold places like Maine say about the cold weather. We came up with nothing.
Does anyone know some really stupid remark that people make to others when it's cold out? Just curious.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Hope
The first week of Advent is coming to a close and we get closer to celebrating the birth of Christ. Every year I pick up a devotional at church. I LOVE the Advent readings and am amazed that each year I get something so new out of them.
This week, it was the words in a prayer that left my thinking about the coming of Christ and how so many people have the reason for this season completely wrong.
Here is the prayer (taken from The Magnificant 2009)
"Even in the darkness that lies between despair and hope, we dare to pray:
O God our Savior, you are the hope of all the earth.
O God, when hope flickers and faints, rekindle within us the fire of your Spirit: that we may burn with desire for your promised salvation.
O God, when despair overtakes the human spirit, fan in us the one desire to pray: that we may find in your fidelity the source of all true hope.
O God, when the darkness threatens those who have forgotten your goodness in the past, stir once again the memory of grace: that, remembering, we may dare to hope once more."
And the scripture reading that went with that prayers was Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe! plans to give you a future full of hope."
This week, it was the words in a prayer that left my thinking about the coming of Christ and how so many people have the reason for this season completely wrong.
Here is the prayer (taken from The Magnificant 2009)
"Even in the darkness that lies between despair and hope, we dare to pray:
O God our Savior, you are the hope of all the earth.
O God, when hope flickers and faints, rekindle within us the fire of your Spirit: that we may burn with desire for your promised salvation.
O God, when despair overtakes the human spirit, fan in us the one desire to pray: that we may find in your fidelity the source of all true hope.
O God, when the darkness threatens those who have forgotten your goodness in the past, stir once again the memory of grace: that, remembering, we may dare to hope once more."
And the scripture reading that went with that prayers was Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe! plans to give you a future full of hope."
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