Preventing Grace
Tune in to Lessons and Carols at 10 on WSKG!!! Or if you don’t plan to, DON’T CALL ME!!! I’ll be listening and I won’t answer the phone or the door. Read more
Tune in to Lessons and Carols at 10 on WSKG!!! Or if you don’t plan to, DON’T CALL ME!!! I’ll be listening and I won’t answer the phone or the door. Read more
Still can’t get over how weird The Christmas Carol is and the whole idea that we will all be saved from being ghosts if we just give to the poor. Still, had a very nice day out yesterday buying five of a lot of things to fill out stockings and other matters. Look like a crazy woman, putting five of everything in my cart–five large oranges, five chocolate Santas, five enormous candy canes, five tiny flashlights, five little puzzles, five boxes... Read more
My favorite Christmas music ever. Read more
A few weeks ago the country of Cote d’Ivoire held presidential elections. RCI is afflicted by that which ails many countries in Africa—strong ethnic groups divided geographically, in this case north and south complicated by a history of strong dictatorships with a good dose of corruption. When Matt came to Africa to meet my parents for the first time RCI dazzled the world by having a coup which eventually devolved into an all out civil war. My mom and dad,... Read more
One Just as I opened this up to start writing my three year old positioned herself next to me to tell me that the “throw up is all out of her mouth”. She was up three times during the night. Why am I blogging? Two Probably the same reason I, in the last three sick hazed days, was compelled by some insane force to make three batches of fudge, pizza dough, hedgehog buns, and deep clean the upstairs. Three All the... Read more
So its pretty horrible not having a dog. We’re left with two cats that we’re endeavoring to love but we realized, this week, that this has always been our attitude towards these cats: Now that we’ve seen the reality of our sin we’re trying to be nice to the cats, particularly Matt (they always come to me for milk at the very list and occasionally let me pet them), but its uphill going. Basically Elphine’s cat, Frances, only likes her and Gladys.... Read more
Today is a day of getting Elphine to a birthday party, painting Christmas ornaments and doing laundry. I’m also going to watch the Muppets Christmas Carol, a movie I have long (about 3 weeks now, since I first heard about it) desired to see. I finished reading A Christmas Carol with my class yesterday. Reading it this time has helped put so many cultural Christmas things in their place for me. I’ve never been a big fan of Christmas. My temperament is... Read more
I should be getting ready for school, but I wanted to offer a grief and tribute to our dog, Maggie, who died on Tuesday. She was 16 and spry until the weekend when she suddenly stopped eating. I figured out this week that Matt found Maggie about a year before he devoted his life to Jesus. I came on the scene a few years after that. Certainly she’s been here to greet and welcome each of our children as we’ve... Read more
I have a rich and bubbly cold and can’t think very far about anything except the fact that I’m profoundly unready for school tomorrow. Not only do I have nothing to say but I haven’t been reading anything eitherEXCEPTfor Simcha Fisherwho is so funny I have just spent the last ten minutes weeping real tears of laughter. I commend to you her latest post, but also her important and immortal thoughts about the Little Drummer Boy. In particular, point number... Read more
About a month ago, in the middle of grading a geography exam, I was overcome by a wave of panic. Not only was I profoundly and inexorably behind in my laundry mountain, not only was I not on top of upcoming Christmas Pageant preparations, not only was I not prepared for the next day of school— either in having procured the right kind of snack to make everyone happy, but more importantly in having made any lesson plans— but in that... Read more
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