December 4 - “Outside is done”

We started the super-foggy day yesterday with a trip out to the church. It was our now-regular First Saturday Breakfast fundraiser for our mission trip to Alaska in May. This time it was biscuits and sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, and hash browns. One of the ladies who came with her husband to eat actually sent him home to get a jar of homemade jelly she made from cranberries and strawberries. We also had some of her homemade peach jelly made from peaches she picked here on the island. That’s fresh stuff. She’s going to join 20 or 30 other vendors who will be selling their wares at the Bethlehem Street Market at the church this coming Saturday, 10-4. Come buy something!

 

We put up our outside lights. We have those hangy-down icicle-y kind. Except this year there were several places that were dead spots, so we finally relented and threw them away and put up the brand-new strands we had, still in the original packaging. We also set out another Precious Moments manger scene. This one was 3-D though. Oh, and we hung up the plastic candy canes on the deck stairs. Outside is done. Well, maybe. When we went outside to check them all out after it got dark, Chris had several ideas for more lights. Around tree trunks and scattered in treetops and draped over bushes. Maybe next year …

 

Last night we ate homemade potato soup and watched the new movie, A Christmas Story Christmas. It was a whole lot like the original. Same characters, only now grown up. Kind of a fun watch.

 

John 8:12 says, “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’”

 

Father, please be with Chris today when we are moving stuff around and getting things set up at church for Bethlehem Market.  Help her to be smart about what she does and doesn’t do.  Amen.