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Christmas Eve 2024
My grandson has a job he takes very seriously. During Advent, every time he has visited us he has made a beeline for the Christmas tree and turned on the lights. That there are presents under the tree with his name on them hasn’t sunk in. For him, Christmas isn’t about what he will get […]
Waiting on Christmas Eve
It is a time of waiting. Always has been. Christmas Eve. As a child we were waiting for the church service to end perhaps. Or for the snow to fall. Or for morning when presents could be opened. (We were envious of those whose tradition allowed them to open their gifts on Christmas Eve.) It […]
Changing Gears in 2020
So how was your Christmas? Different wasn’t it? I’d bet it was also satisfying. It is December and people have adjusted to the restrictions. Video calls may not be ideal, but they serve a purpose when you can’t get together. The Christmas feast tasted just as good as if there were 15 people around the […]
Christmas Eve 2020
This was going to be the year. Christmas Eve in Bethlehem. What could be more meaningful? It was one of those bucket-list type of things. And surprisingly cheap.a return flight from Basel would only be a couple of hundred dollars. We know people who know people who would have found is a cheap place to […]
Christmas Eve 2019
No Santa coming by sleigh to my house today. That’s a tradition we don’t observe. No chestnuts roasting by an open fire either – no fireplace available. Last minute shopping? Possibly – we’re low on milk and the stores are closed Christmas Day. The stores will be closing early, allowing employees to spend the evening […]
Christmas Eve 2018
The world pauses tonight, at least in theory. With bated breath we await the announcement of a miraculous birth, the Christ-child, the Prince of Peace. Every year we remember the world-shaking event. Occasionally I have detailed my struggles in learning German, but when I saw this picture I realized I had learned something. I understood […]
Christmas Eve
The Queen’s birthday is a national holiday in Canada. We celebrate it on what is described as the “May 24th long weekend.” May 24 is not the birthday of the reigning queen, Elizabeth II but that of her great-great- grandmother, Victoria, who reigned for most of the 19th century. People got used to the May […]
Peace On Earth
This is one of my favourite Christmas songs of the 21st century so far. It has a hymn-like quality to it and a nice balance between the now and the not yet. Kind of appropriate somehow for Christmas Eve. Heaven on earth We need it now I’m sick of all of this Hanging around Sick […]
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