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Beloved - it's good to have you back. You've been missed. We need your light, your love, your joy.
Now sit down, have a piece of Christmas fruit bread, a glass of eggnog and a cup of coffee.

It'ss Christmas Eve day. I hope that everyone is just about ready so you can relax and catch your breath before the big day. As for me, I'm going over to the mall for coffee with Seelerman and the group he meets a couple of times a week. Then we will pop into the grocery store to buy something for tonight's meal and to top up anything we might run out of over the weeekend. Then a rest, until dinner, and we're greeting at the door for the 7:00 pm worship service. Looking forward to enjoying it with Seelergirl and ffamily.
As for the evening meal, I'm not sure. Perhaps I'll pick up a lobster to serve with potato salad and tossed salad, and fruit cake. (We are being careful with Seelerman's touchy gall-bladder - his doctor has approved seafood but not dipping it in melted butter. But will he enjoy lobster without melted butter?)
 
Good morning, Seeler- early riser as well...
I am going to cook a turkey today- junior anteater wanted one, and the 24th is our Grman tradition Christmas day. Tomorrow will be turkey at our Canadian friends house and boxing day supper at my other friends house. After that, we will be eating leftover turkey for the rest of the year.
 
Today is the big day - the first day in the season of Christmas :)

Advent ends this afternoon, and then Christmas commences with Christmas Eve.

How will you start off the celebration of Christmas tonight?

Since my own Baptist church is not holding a service, I'll be going to a Lutheran church to worship.
 
Codes are not allowed ... to many theologians say they don't exist and can't be as they appear in the dark ... thus we'll just let them lie as Code X and begin with Hebrews!

Oh yes King James wouldn't allow that ... so it was slipped in quietly ... and thus on the QT ... isn't that a cutie of a metaphor ... my grandfather said it was distasteful as cute ... not acceptable in wee boys!

This marked another carrier of gonads in which it was not seen? Possibly as subtle mind as the lady following ... ahah! hermeneutic!
 
Luce NDs said:
Codes are not allowed ... to many theologians say they don't exist and can't be as they appear in the dark ... thus we'll just let them lie as Code X and begin with Hebrews!

Oh yes King James wouldn't allow that ... so it was slipped in quietly ... and thus on the QT ... isn't that a cutie of a metaphor ... my grandfather said it was distasteful as cute ... not acceptable in wee boys!

This marked another carrier of gonads in which it was not seen? Possibly as subtle mind as the lady following ... ahah! hermeneutic!
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Corrupt Luce, I do not disc go adv on published forum. There are Rhode here, though, you are keen on shafting on go adv in publishing pleases. Come have even made it their buck SCC to talk about go adv with little school childs.
 
Lovely to see you, beloved! I'm doing my family Christmas on Boxing Day, and going to an "Odd Sods" dinner at a friends tomorrow night, to which I need only bring a vegetable contribution. Unfortunately, both of those meals were to have featured brussel sprouts, which are unattainable in my part of town for some reason (I know, having been in FOUR grocery stores yesterday), so I must pop into the local grocery with Plan B.

*Bette lays out a lovely Christmas Eve brunch for those returning from final errands: stratas - both sausage and vegetarian, a baby spinach salad with pom seeds, freshly baked bread and buns, homemade jams and jellies, freshly squeezed orange juice (mimosas for those who would like).*
 
Loving the brunch , thank-you BetteTheRed.

It is odd today. The weather is more what we expect at Easter, rather than Christmas.
I have received news from my friend who has had recurrence of her cancer, and the news is challenging. Best case is surgery with a rough hoe ahead, worst case is she will start to prepare to die. She is awaiting one more set of results which will tell her which way it will be.

I think of folks all over the world who are celebrating the joy of new birth, and the sadness of death. The good, the bad and the ugly don't know that it is Christmas, and yet for those who experience any significant ev ent, the fact that it occurred at Christmas makes it part of this day forever.
May we be extra kind to all we meet this holiday season. Recognizing that many carry heavy burdens, and many are remembering times gone by.

peace to you al.
Great Joy be heading your way
 
Yes, I was over at the church minding our Peace Labyrinth yesterday when the news came in that a long-term member of the church had died. Her poor husband, a very valued member of a number of our teams, was very distressed because he found her; she had clearly collapsed, then struggled a bit. She was in her 80s, had enjoyed a long, full life, and had not been recently ill, although she had a number of health challenges and was struggling with some dementia.

He's a lovely old guy, and I don't know what he's going to do without her to look after. Christmas will sure be hard for a while for him. They were a handsome couple; he aged very well and you could tell that she had been a real beauty in her youth.
 
Merry Christmas everyone! Popping in for a short while, I needed a chance to sit for a bit. Plans seem to be changing here quickly with some cancellations. Not my family, but some of them were going to be here for dinner tonight. I feel badly for those who are family and I hope this doesn't put too much on a damper for a special Christmas for them. We'll have a great dinner tonight and I'm sure tomorrow will be good too.
 
We are leaving at 5 for Christmas Eve at my daughters. Eventually the whole family will be there,

Merry whatever to all of you,
 
I am heading out to take my Dad to church at 6ish. After church, I will take him home, and loop back to pick up my youngest son & husband to visit a good friends for Christmas Eve where scotch will be sipped, goodies will be nibbled, and laughs will be had.
 
Prep is done, stockings are hung, church was lovely and included communion, skyped with my dtr who read me Twas the Night Before Xmas - so although we're not snuggled up together on the couch, our Xmas eve tradition continues. Oh ... and a little scotch here too before retiring pinga! Now off to sleep. "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night."
 
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