Category Archives: Christmas
Zaka’s Party
This Friday I got a call at noon just as I was sitting down to dinner out with the School Dental Program staff, I got a call to tell me that Zaka was having a daycare Christmas programme at 3. … Continue reading
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Connecting
In theses days of Advent, I receive a series of devotional posts from Goshen College. In today’s devotional was a story I can identify with. It goes like this: A Hasidic story tells of a rabbi’s son who used to … Continue reading
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Feeling a little Queasy?
Sickness has been making the rounds around here. Over Christmas first Annette, then David then Kieran – then Kimia and Zaka. Today Ronin threw up. I’m hoping my headache is not something fluish. Most weird is that Leo has broken … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas
From our house to you! Rejoice! Rejoice! Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called … Continue reading
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It is beginning
To sound like Christmas at my house. Little voices can be heard. The family is beginning to arrive. It smells like turkey. The ham goes in to the oven shortly. Tourtiere too. I am going for a quick shower and … Continue reading
Empanadas
The folks from the lab presented me and my partner each with a big tray of home made Chilean empanadas and some home made fresh salsa. We had about half of them for supper tonight. MMmmn they were good. Mind … Continue reading
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These days
This preaching gig (if one can call it a gig) has its rewards. It seems that if I speak my family lets me off from noon meal responsibilities. And lets me nap in the afternoon. Not bad. They don’t let … Continue reading
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Morning Prayer
These days where there is so much to ponder and reflect on, there seems so little time to do that. Each weekend has its full quota of parties added on to my already busy schedule. I am becoming quite tired … Continue reading
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Advent as necessary waiting
In the seasons of Advent and Lent I find myself feeling a bit at odds with the frivolity of the season. (Not that Lent is exactly filled with mirth but it is hardly about getting stocked up on chocolate for … Continue reading
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Home
These guys came home last night. It is good. Ronin is a toddler not a baby any more.
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