Just before Christmas

December 17, 2018

Almost 2019!!!  Here I am now at the age of 84 waiting for warmer weather???  Well, I know better than that since I have been here for a while.  But thinking about things has caused me to consider that life here is good and that the opportunities we have to live a good life are the best Christmas gift ever.  I have never given up my belief in "Santa Claus" because each year brings an unexpected gift representing that mysterious giver I learned about in childhood.

Yesterday represents such a gift.  Dori Balcheva invited some of us from a former Bible study group to her home for a time together that was delightful  I know, I talked too much.  It is my style that I cannot seem to shake.  Perhaps due to the fact that I do not talk to people in real life all that often.  It is a miracle to me that people from distant parts of the world can come together and celebrate life knowing that we are indeed all the same.  We can recognize the shared values and allow the other their differences without dividing into hatefulness that destroys rather than appreciating the glorious differences that can teach us things we might never have considered to be possible.