Friday, December 19, 2008

family gathering

i am so glad that there are people that love Jesus and each other. today i went to tom and barbara’s house. about 20 people showed up with a white elephant gift in one hand and a dish to share in the other. i got to have some great conversations with interesting people about topics such as: pizza places, knitting, astro-physics, and making soap. we all talked together, ate food together, read the Word together, laughed together, and prayed together. it was beautiful. i am not familiar with most of the people who were there, but i didn’t feel like a stranger. i felt like part of a family. how amazing it is to be part of the body of Christ.

at said gathering, there were some of the coolest white elephant gifts i have ever seen. i just happened to get a book that is a collection of works by sigmund freud…in german! my mom got a little bank from ukraine; it was a little fat man…with a hammer and sickle on his belly! other gifts included, an iron towel rack, teddy bear salt and pepper shakers, and (my personal favorite) a neon lighted guitar wall clock.

Say some prayers for my dad, he’s really sick and frustrated about it because he can’t do much.

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