Comments on: Christmas thoughts

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:31:12 +0000

In reply to Lloyd. Thank you Lloyd....you are so right.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:27:40 +0000

Reading that bill of fare makes me want to hop a plane and join your family for Christmas. I’ll be alone, baking the ham for the Solo’s Christmas potluck.

About that fire: it never burns low; we just need to move closer. I learned that from a thousand campfires.

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:17:53 +0000

In reply to Patty. Thank you Patty. Kaitlyn will make it a Christmas to remember, I'm sure. Thank you for the blessing you have been this year...

By: Patty

Patty — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:11:43 +0000

Though my own Christmas Eve and morning will be full of food and the Princess and our own traditions; I wish that I could be there to share in the sheer joy of yours. I hope that you and yours have a blessed and peace-filled day, with lots of singing, laughter and children’s kisses!

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:23:34 +0000

In reply to Ember. A loving puff of air for the embers, from Ember. I have my eyes closed, waiting for it to arrive.... TY. xxoo

By: Ember

Ember — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:50:46 +0000

“Flames that are only embers.” I know about those times. When I changed my name, I did it as an act of faith that even if all you can see is ashes, if there’s the teeniest glow of warmth, somewhere there’s an Ember underneath; and if you have that you’re in with a chance – life can start again.
At our Friday housegroup someone has asked if we can talk about being born again. I was holding this request in my heart when I went to see the film ‘Of Gods & Men’. In it one of the monks talks about Christmas being a time of birth and dying, part of a repeated cycle that continues through life. He said we are reborn many times. I think that’s right. I think we have to be.
Here’s a lungful of puff for the fire in you all the way across the world from me :0o<<<} Can you feel it? :0)

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:16:06 +0000

In reply to Carey. Thank you for your wonderful encouragement, in print and in friendship, dear Carey.

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:13:59 +0000

What lovely, joy-filled memories to share with us…your faithful readers!

Thank you for your transparency Julie. Please know you’re not alone in your dependency on Him to rekindle the flames that are now only embers. I think we could all take a lesson from little Vivie in how we should come to the Lord…unabashed love and adoration. I hope and pray that your upcoming time together has more of these precious moments to look back upon and treasure.

Lots of love from our home to yours…