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Things have been very quiet on-line, in stark contrast to the real-world status of life throughout December. Yesterday I managed an actual rest day, spending it at the cricket with the family, watching Australia and South Africa do battle. It was a slow day, but I'm not sure that it was the cricket or simply being in the one space and mind for such a length of time that made it feel so.
We enjoyed a festive Christmas dinner with 15 gathered around the table. It is a joy to meet new people at this time and hear where their journeys have taken them over the past 12 months and brought them to us at Christmas. It was a reminder that the Christmas story is based around travellers: every key person was a traveller to an unfamiliar place: Joseph and Mary, the shepherds came in from the fields, the wise men travelled from afar.... It was in the midst of strangers that the Christ-child was born. In the midst of people who had been strangers to us we encountered the one called Immanuel afresh.
I trust that you are all enjoying a restful and renewing time.
Posted by gary at December 28, 2005 01:03 PM
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