Sights...Words...Tastes...Experiences
from the Fourth Week of Advent
The fourth candle is lit.
Time with people I love.
"The being with is always the gift,
not merely the doing for."
Ann Voskamp
I did it! Holiday crunch challenge at the Y. Twenty workouts...
Poppy Seed Bread, Molasses Cookies and Rocky Road Fudge
The last shopping list!
Advent Challenge- As you make your ordinary preparations
today, shopping, cleaning, baking, traveling - breathe a
silent prayer, asking God to clear the way, turning your
secular tasks into something sacred.
"Holly (or before the seventeenth century, "holy tree") is strongly associated with the season of Advent and Christmas. It's bright red berries have been seen as celebrating the joy of the Virgin at bearing the Christ child, and also as a symbol of the drops of blood from the body of Jesus at Calvary." - from Advent and Christmas Wisdom
Homemade vanilla extract for friends.
Carolina Wray Christmas Show
Christmas Eve
"Christmas is fast approaching. And now that Christ
has aroused our seasonal expectations,
he'll soon fulfill them all."
Saint Augustine
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...
Putting together Blessing Bags for the Womens Shelter
Decorating Christmas ornaments
"Lord, I am like to mistletoe,
Which has no root and cannot grow
Or prosper, but by that same tree
It clings about: so I by thee."
Robert Herrick
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