Long Journey

Christmas Wishes

Tis Christmas Morn and the day has dawned

With light and joy for all

Let children sing and Santa bring

a present for one and all

And on this joyous day of celebration

lets think of all within our nation

that celebrate this day

that Jesus came to stay.

Happy Christmas to you all, and we hope you have a wonderful time. For those with little faces, I am sure the excitement is past fever pitch and that paper is strewn across the carpet. For those with Big faces, enjoy the festivities and we hope to see you in the new year.
Loads of Christmas Cheer and Love.
Steve, Fiona, and Rebecca

Grace Nine - 2008

I did a small mediation at Grace's Nine service on Sunday, and it was its usual special eclectic mix of the profound. I ran out of time, and did a very quick picture meditation using Mary did you know.

The others put far more effort into their pieces, and it was great. The most impacting bit was were Ben did a piece on thin places, with a muslin sheet hung projecting stars etc onto it. The readers stood behind the sheet and were cast into a silhouette, then the sheet was cut with a samurai sword showing the gap being opened between Heaven and Earth.

Some shots from the iphone.

The scene before the service, relaxed and peaceful.

Soon to be disturbed, as around the church were these sets of balloons. A balloon was popped to tell people where to focus on each reading. BANG!

Jonny used these nativity cut outs to build a scene after his reading, so it was a good thing that my piece only took 3.20, out the 5 mins allotted to each piece. Jonny's took over 20!

The afore mentioned silhouettes.

"Finger" painting on new paper stories.

Chirstmas Card Shots

Ever since Rebecca was born we have sent out picture Christmas Cards with her on the front. As she has got bigger, this has seemed more and more the "proud" parent sending out cards than the cute images each year. BUT everyone keeps on telling us they love the cards and to keep them coming!

So this year we tried a bit of blue screen, and dressing up! It worked OK. the blue screen was infact our yellow wall in the hall!

Rebecca is in THREE nativity plays this year, two more than last year. She had three plays last year but only one was a nativity (the church one!).

So they would seem to be in vogue this year.

She plays (in order of plays)

One Wise Person, with present helper!

Mary, the lead role!

One Angel - Church!

Only a couple of roles and she would have the complete set, so if you need a Shepherd or a Joseph let us know!

Power Cut

So for the first time since greenbelt, out comes the gas lamp. We are
having our first power cut on ages, and rebecca is loving it!

And thanks to the iphone I can still blog

Only trouble I'd that I was finally sitting down at the mac to prep up
for the Grace 9 service on Saturday.

Oh well!