A Limerick

There was once a young seamstress named Flo,
Who's impatience while stitching would show.
All her seams turned out wrong,
And she learned ere too long,
In the end you will rip what you sew.

THE MESSIAH!

This Saturday and Sunday, we were very blessed to be able to participate in the 9th annual presentation of George Fredric Handel's Messiah, in Marlette.

Messiah is a wonderful masterpiece of choral music, dealing with the most wonderful and awesome subject; The prophecies, coming, life, death and reigning of our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the Messiah!


Before the choral itself the audience was entertained by Rachel McEwan, a talented harpist.


Five sweet sisters, led us in singing "Joy to the World" as the choir filed in.


"Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King!

Mrs. Wagner and Lindy played one of the most beuatiful duets I have ever heard. It was a combination of Pachelbel Canon and Still, Still, Still.

Mr. Brier our wonderful conductor worked a lot with us this year, on how to really make the words come alive through the music.


"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God"

"And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together:

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."


"Thus Saith the LORD of Hosts: Yet once a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land;....... But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiners fire."


"And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."

"O Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain;... Say unto the cities of Judah Behold your God!


"For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the LORD shall rise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee,...

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light ; and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE."!!


"There were Shepherds, abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flock at night,"


"And lo! the angel of the LORD came upon them, and the glory of the LORD shone round about a them, and they were sore afraid,"

"And suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying; glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will towards men."

"Come unto Him all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and He will give you rest. ... His yoke is easy and His burthen is light!"

"Hallelujah, for the LORD God Omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and HE shall reign forever and ever.

KINGS OF KINGS, and LORD OF LORDS. Hallelujah!!!"


"I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though worms destroy my body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep."

"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing."

"Blessing an honor, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. "
"AMEN and AMEN!!!"

~ Chs

The first snow fall!!!!

We were all (or most of us anyways) thrilled the other day when it snowed!!

Josiah has been waiting since October for a good snow, and was in ecstasy when the snow actually stayed on the deck.

The first thing he did when we got home that evening from some friends house, was to rush down to the Ivy room lean out the door (without a coat on) and begin to make a snow man=)

Ta Da!! Here is the first snowman of the year!! (sorry about the blurry picture, the snowman wouldn't stay still;)
Hope you all are enjoying the nice cold weather as much as we are. Chs

A very late Thanksgiving post and an Invitation to todays performance!

Dear Blog readers, I apologize profusely for the lack of posts recently, especially after Thanksgiving. My only excuse is that Faith and I were working frantically to complete some dresses for today's and tomorrow's Messiah concert, Dec 5th and 6th. (this year they decided the ladies would wear all black instead of the normal black and white, so Faith and I, who have no black outfits, had to make ourselves dresses). Anyone that is somewhat close (of course if you want to spend the money to fly or drive all the way just to see us, we won't stop you;) is invited to the Marlette Community Chorus - 9th annual presentation of George Frideric Handel's Messiah. It is at 3:00 PM this Saturday and Sunday at the Marlette United Methodist Church, 3155 Main St. Marlette, MI. Admission is free and there will be refreshments afterward;), so please do come. Now back to last weeks celebration.

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Thanksgiving morning dawned bright and busy, almost everyone was running around the house doing something. At a tiny little bit after 11:30 we were able to make it out of the house and into Gingers open doors, and down the driveway!

Down the road and over the freeway to Aunt Carmen's house we go.


We arrived a little bit before our other relatives and us girls helped out in the kitchen.


Aunt Carmen tried something new this year, a duck!


Of course we had our usual piles of pie! Pumpkin and Apple, Pecan, Chocolate Pecan, and a Cherry. (sigh;)




Aunt Carmen did the most fabulous job decorating the table, everything looked marvelous.


As did the food. Yummy!


Uncle Paul demolished, otherwise known as carved the second turkey, and did a good job too.



We were very glad that Al, Eldita (Aunt Carmen's "Adopted daughter") and their boys were able to join us.

After we finished stuffing ourselves, we relaxed while Dad read and expounded on some bible passages about giving thanks.

After that we had a wonderful time of singing in Spanish,


Hausa and English.

Josiah and I, had come up with some games and activities for all the children (young and old) to play. The first one we did was pin (or in this case tape) the tail on the Turkey! Benji and Levi loved this game and got most of the Adults to do it as well. The only problem was that Benji loved to help guide the hands of the participants to the "right"places.

Oh my, poor Turkey, he's starting to look like a porcupine!

The boys were able to get Uncle Paul to play, and almost had him putting his feather on the turkey's foot!

Another game we made from a thanksgiving craft book, was feed the turkey.

The object of the game was to get the "pieces of corn" (little flannel bean sacks that Mumsy made) into the gaping mouth of the turkey. The boys just whaled it at him, sometimes knocking him backwards with their efforts.

We are very thankful to God for our loving family He has given us, and for the wonderful time he allowed us to spend with them!

~Chs

Our last walk with Josh.

On last Monday afternoon we went for a last walk with Josh before he left that evening.

We took Baby along for the walk and she was the most thrilled dog in the entire world. She just couldn't stay put!!

God could not have provided a more beautiful day. Sunny and clear, just chilly enough to wear cozy sweaters.

Here are a few pictures from are excursion.

Baby dog!

Brother and Sister.

Some interesting fungi on a tree.

A little "tree house".

Doesn't Faith look like she's sitting in the water?!

You are here.

Our last picture with Josh for a while. May God bless him and bring him home safely.

~Chs