Twas' the day

 before Christmas.  Some years I make my preparation deadline a day or so just before the family Xmas on New Years' weekend.  This year not so.  I'm ready before Christmas but this time family time will be the MTWed just after this weekend.  So READY NOW is better this time.  I had a blast at Goodwill yesterday finding just the right something for stockings.  Yes...I fill 9 of them with mostly good stuff and a little junk that fits each person.  My story is that Santa adds the junk!  I'm lovin' the stocking stuff this year. 

It's 9 am and a batch of cookies is ready for the freezer.  A little more baking and I'm finished.  Usually, the kids are full of cookies before they arrive.  That's usually a given when we do Xmas after Christmas.  Here are Chocolate chips with half of the chocolate melted and the other half of the bag added unmelted.  My favorite way of doing the baking cookie thing. 


Later this morning I'm off to Aldi's for supplies to make a couple of meals for the visit.  I hate cooking when all the fun is at some other place in the house.  So that old thing called preparation happens now and that's not a bad thing.  

Last night's choir preparation assured us that we are ready for tonight.  It might seem a bit strange to be in church at 7:15 instead of at 10:30  as we have been for nearly 50 years.  We missed one or two because of illness. Just about like everything else, things this year are different with one exception.  We still celebrate the Christmas story.  Thanks be to God. 

So I'm inviting you all to tune in to North United Methodist Church Indianapolis for a live stream at 7:15.  It's lessons and carols evening with a wonderful Saxophone quartet playing wonderful arrangements of Christmas Music for the prelude as well as at other times.  The choir will sing, scriptures will be read, prayers will be prayed and a favorite anthem will be once again be sung, The Work of Christmas, to feed the hungry, to release the pris'ner, to rebuild the nation, to bring peace among brothers, to make music from the heart.  The bells will peal and we will sing Joy to the World, the Lord has come.  That's after a quiet Silent Night, a bit sung in German with guitar accompanying for a bit as it was sung for the very first time.   The church website also allows you to print a bulletin to follow along with scripture and words from the anthems printed.  

Welcome to North Chruch.  Our place of worship for us together, more than 50 years. For Doug more than 60 years.  Merry Christmas, with a prayer for all that is good arriving at your door in the coming year. 

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