Crèche Journey 2023 Day 2
oday’s nativity was given to me by my oldest nephew and family last Christmas. It’s a magnetic board that all the pieces adhere to… #DayTwo #nativitycollector #crèchenerd
Crèche Journey 2023 Day 1
I haven’t counted to see if I can with my nativity collection, but I’m going to attempt a nativity a day until epiphany This, the first of the season, it’s a photo I took in Bethlehem in January of 2020. It’s by one of my favorite artists Banksy. This nativity dubbed the “Scar of Bethlehem”, shows Jesus’s manger by Israel’s separation barrier, which appears to have been pierced by a blast, creating the shape of a star. Given the current state of Israel and Palestine, this seem very poignant. For me, it represents the way we build walls, and Jesus comes to challenge those walls. But I also think it represents peace, where peace seems impossible. #nativitycollector #crèchenerd
Blessing Of The Animals
Perhaps the Blessing of the Animals is the favorite thing I get to do!! Here are my words from Sunday October 2, 2022: Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 Common English Bible I also thought, where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless. All go to the same place: all are from the dust; all return to the dust. Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth? So I perceived that there was nothing better for human beings but to enjoy what The rest of the story
A Christmas Lesson (good all year)
So I’m a little bah humbug on Christmas this year. Nothing will be like every other year…we’ll be home at dhachaigh rather than Tobaccoville at mama’s (where I’ve spent every one of my 57 Christmases). I can be curmudgeonery anyway and this year has a millionth dose. Anyway, last Saturday night I got all excited to put up a tree! So we bought a coupon – a $40 tree for $28 – an NC TREE from a local store! Win – Win – Win, right…nope all their $40 trees were ~4ft (who wants to look down on the angel?). So I bah humbuged and grumbled (and grumbled about Christmas, about spent money, about…well, everything – it’s a rabbit hole). During the week we went to The rest of the story
Israel / Palestine Trip – Day Twelve
Stardate: January 31, 2020 In a lot of ways we’ve saved the best for last. Going on the archeological dig and spending time digging in the dirt and looking for artifacts was so exciting! And how fun and how amazing to be able to be in Israel, in the place where the Maccabees were. Where history was made. And to be a part of an archeological dig, not just to see it but to actually participate in it. Absolutely phenomenal. After so many days of stuffing my brain and working my body and trying to understand and to hear and to work through the spiritual changes; to be able to play in the dirt was a reversion to childhood. I used to love to The rest of the story