Category: Christmas

• The Price of Kindness and Gas

  About noon on Friday I left Christmas Mountain in Wisconsin Dells to drive home for the weekend. I’ll return today (Monday) for three more days of my 10-day writing retreat. I’d made the reservations for this writing retreat a couple months ago. Since then a few things have come up for the weekend that required…

  Marian

  December 10, 2012

  Christmas, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Music, Reflections

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• Enjoying Christmas Music to the Fullest

  I love Christmas music – listening to it, singing it, and playing it on the piano and organ. The Christmas music season for me begins the Monday after Thanksgiving (today!) and extends at least throughout the week of Epiphany (January 6), and sometimes longer. I like playing Christmas carols from hymnals, but I also like…

  Marian

  November 26, 2012

  Celebrations, Christmas, God’s Love, Music, Reflections

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• God’s Love Made Visible

  [Copied from first blog. Originally posted December 19, 2011.] I experienced another God-wink last week. It was Thursday afternoon and I was in the county jail to play the piano for the women’s worship service. There were nine of us sitting in a circle in the chapel – the chaplain, myself, and seven inmates. After…

  Marian

  December 30, 2011

  Christmas, Jail Ministry

  God’s love, God-wink, jail ministry, parental rights

• Christmas Music Memories

  [Copied from first blog. Originally posted on December 5, 2011.] When I was in first grade, I remember the Methodist and Presbyterian kids got together in church for something. I don’t remember any of the details, except one. We sang my favorite Christmas song, Away in a Manger – but it wasn’t the right tune!…

  Marian

  December 30, 2011

  Christmas

  Christmas Carols, hymn sing