SUCH A TIME THIS IS

The Christmas letter is being inserted into the Christmas cards as I write these words.
Tomorrow is reserved for near finalizing of all Christmas shopping. A whole day is devoted.
God help us.
We are off to a wonderland of offerings and are hoping for total success.

We have attended Christmas programs and parties and there are more in the offing.

We are fortunate, blessed - or encumbered, depending upon how you look at it.

The woodpeckers have eaten up the suet and other feathered little ones have finished off the thistle – so their emporium will be one of the stops.

All the split wood has been burned – so more work is needed there.

Food has been laid in…the larder bulges – but there is always room for more.

And the spirit locker is adequately provisioned, especially in that it is closed until Thursday.

Dear wife has resurrected a violin from retirement and is preparing to rehearse tunes learned long ago – as well as ones she has just discovered. Who knows what may come of that.

Choir rehearsals are in full swing – and friends from all directions are hosting gatherings of varying degrees of complexity. We are too.

We note that newspapers are once again full of ponderings on the ultimate fate of religious life in the West – assuming, of course, that there still is life in such life.
I am kidding.
There is life!!!!!!!!

The flame does flicker here and there, however.

With the revelation that Iran has been working on a nuclear trigger for a weapon for years, we at The Study are waiting to see when the open hand of b.o. will be transformed into the more realistic fist of President Bush.
When, oh when will reality intrude upon b.o.’s myopia?
Or is he really just a Chicago pol?
Perhaps he is incapable.

And the fakery and lies of global warming are becoming more and more apparent with the revelation of the emails – and the current temp data – and the foolishness of warming proponents.

And God save us from the UN – the tool of the third world.
To think it WAS the creation of the VICTORS IN WORLD WAR TWO!!!!!!!!

And God save us from the current US Congress – or rather, God help the Good Guys/Gals in the Congress to save us from the bad guys.

nancy and harry are really on a trip.
And they are trying to take us all with them.

Carbon and the EPA threats and health care debates - WHEW!!!!!!!

And we could make a list. Could we ever!!

But again, it is late and there have been adult beverages and the Christmas lights are on and carols are playing and for the moment, thank the Good Lord, joy is abroad in the land (The Study).
You never know about an hour from now.

Things happen.