Re: [TruthTalk] Merry Christmas!

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The Smithson kids are going to lead worhsip this evening at church.   Maybe I can a picture or two of them and send them to the forum.  

 

Anyway  --   you all have a great day.   We have a very busy day planned  from hee on out. 

 

G  -- I am serious about the bat. 

 

My highest regards ar with all of you this day. 

 

John

 

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From: Judy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Thanks for sharing Iz and I

do pray that all goes smoothly with the move,

 

Our daughter with the kids, dog, hamster, and rabbit arrived about midnight and she was up until the early hours

getting their Christmas arranged for them.  I am trusting the Lord that it will all come together for us. Right now they

are gone to visit one of her school friends who is down with her family and we are here with the animals. I have the \turkey in the oven and will have to do the rest before they return.  Thank you JD for reminding me that loving and supporting them is

ministry in itself because although we had planned to go we didn't make it to either of the two services this morning. 

 

Our little grandaughter with the Leukemia takes a lot of time although she is looking really healthy and is just as sweet

as ever.  She wears an insulin pump now and so has to have her BS checked all the time and if it is up they give her

a bolus.  Iz would know what that is.  The chemo drug is what gave her the diabetes and they hope this will go away

when she is finished with these drugs - Her hair has grown back curly and is really cute although her Dr. said it will

straighten out later.

 

We are enjoying them but the house is in an uproar.  When they arrived around midnight the dog weed in the

kitchen and Jenna slipped on it and insisted on taking a bath so that's how it goes.  Oh! the joy of having a young

family.  I was encouraged to hear Jenna report that she no longer considers Hilary Duff to be a Christian (she's the

one who lies just a little bit).  Our dinner is at 4 p.m. and the rest of the family will be here then.  Our son and his wife

went to the early service at Church at they were going to her mothers for dinner at 1 p.m.  The Lord is a very real

presence and after all - He is the greatest gift. 

 

                                                                                        Merry Christmas to all from rainy VA

From: ShieldsFamily

 

We aren’t “having Christmas” this year, due to having half of our belongings at one house, and half at the other as we move.  We never planned for our new home to be finished right before Christmas! So, no tree or decorations.  No gifts.  No food in the house. Just boxes and pandemonium in the background as we carry on with more important things, like my husband playing percussion for 8 pre-Christmas services, etc.  What little bit of family is here joined us for one of the services the other night and then we, plus a few friends, went out to dinner together afterwards. 

 

I was not expecting to wake up early this morning to look outside at a layer of wet snow covering the ground and trees—a perfect Christmas gift!  After hauling a couple of carloads of boxes to the new house we will dine at the house of friends who always manage to be enormously hospitable in their tiny little house. They have the biggest of hearts. Then we will go together to see the movie Narnia.  Christmas comes, ready or not, and you don’t need a tree or presents.  It’s all about Him.  Have a blessed one!  iz