I don't know how else to state it, but we just feel truly overwhelmed with the outpouring of love that was shown to us by our home church in N.C., Hickory Grove! From Christmas cards with personal messages, to children's church drawings with sweet words of love and encouragement, to wall-to-wall sour patch kids, gummy bears, Jell-o pudding for my recovery from surgery, Christmas presents (not yet opened, of course). We don't know how to say thank-you, but please know that we are so appreciative and we feel so LOVED!
Well, right now I am surrounded at my laptop by bacon and egg eating scoundrels while I sit here and chew gum....hahahaha! I think they should have ALL joined me on my clear liquid diet!
Tonight, we will be making cookies, but not before we go out and buy a few more ingredients. The neighbors are beginning the process of making tamales that they will give out on Dec. 23rd. Christmas cookies are not a tradition here, so our family will make cookies tonight for our family to give away next week to our camp employees and those who help us and join us in ministry here. There's a lot of baking to do tonight! FUN!!!
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Dear Sis: Greetings in our dear Lord. Heard this week about your surgery this Saturday, and wanted you to know that we are all lifting you up before the Lord. Your surgeons will have a host of angels helping them along - whether they know it or not. And God will be supervising their brains and decision-making - again, with or without their knowledge. I am gripped with emotion over your discomfort with these circumstances. Yet I know that whether God allows us a clear path or asks us to walk through the "valley of the shadow of death," His love never changes. You know that whenever it appeared that you would be crushed, in the past, that He has not crushed you. Indeed his trials are always medicinal and creative and redemptive. We love you guys and wish we could be there to hold your hands. But as it is, we shall both have to hold Christ's hands together, via the help of the Holy Spirit, and commune intercontinentally through Him! Please have Ken (or the kids) post news of your surgery. Meanwhile, we shall all meditate on God's greatest gift to us -- of Christ. Thus we shall spend a very rich Christmas indeed. In our weakness, we are ever more cogniscent of His strength. Psalm 91! Your OLDEST brother -- Dick (Airdrie, Scotland)
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