Cool Christmas presents

Your wife sounds like a good woman. And a smart one.

My daughter Abby got me a 2 CD set of Bob Dylan music – Tell Tale Signs – Vol. 8 in the Bootleg Series. There’s some really good stuff here, most rare & unreleased. My wife even likes it, and she’s not really a Dylan fan.

Completely cool!

Okay, nevermind, no picture. 😛
They are lace-up combat style boots, with a 2-inch heel. Love them.

Manxman, you reveal a new dimension of yourself! A Dylan fan! Me too. And, Katy, you reveal a new dimension of yourself too!

I got a bag of coins from 50 different countries, a plain bandage tin, and two rare Monkees compilations. And from that you can learn much about me.

I got a Treasury of Prayer from a great friend. wow. You ALL need to run, not walk, to your computer and order a copy from CPH.

It is an intimidating book. very large. but once you get past that, it is really very cool. you need only ONE book to do everything to maintain a rhythm of 1x, 2x or 3x daily prayers.

you can expand or contract time you spend in prayer (somehow that sounds way to utilitarian to be right….)

and what I am really saying is that once you have that book in your hands, your excuses not to spend some quality time with your Lord start melting away without alot of noticable effort….

I would be curious to know how many pastors here maintain a structured prayer and home devotional life. and what kind of pointers and pitfalls they could share…

I like Orrefors crystal and every once in a while my husband buys some for me. This year he found an Orrefors crystal bowl made 25 years ago. We are celebrating our 25th anniversary next April so that made it special. The other thing that was special was – he bought it from a man who used to live in Sweden and designed Volvo cars. This man knows the man who designed this bowl and bought it in Sweden 25 years ago!!

I got a copy of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Requiem,” one of my favorite modern classical pieces. I’ve told my wife that I want the “Hosanna” from that Mass sung at my funeral

I also got books of Christina Rossetti’s and John Donne’s poems. Hurray!