Merry Christmas from Eric and Dennise!!! (Read our yearly e-Christmas card)
Dec/30/2005 05:11 PM Filed in: Favorite
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The past few
weeks have been absolutely crazy-busy for me. That
adds on to the past two months that were also, by
themselves, crazy-busy. That's a whole lot of
busy-ness goin' on....
But, this week, it slowed down some, and I was able to get our yearly e-Christmas card done. For those unfamiliar, it's been about five years since we actually sent out a paper card. We send a combination card/letter that's packed with links to pictures, mp3s, websites, and quicktime home movies. It's a little multimedia snapshot of our year in review.
Download it here
Feel free to download to your little heart's content. It's in Adobe pdf version. And to enjoy it fully, we assume you have Quicktime, an mp3 player, and an image viewer. (most folks have all that stuff these days...)
Hope you're all having a safe holiday. (Read the rest. Click here)
But, this week, it slowed down some, and I was able to get our yearly e-Christmas card done. For those unfamiliar, it's been about five years since we actually sent out a paper card. We send a combination card/letter that's packed with links to pictures, mp3s, websites, and quicktime home movies. It's a little multimedia snapshot of our year in review.
Download it here
Feel free to download to your little heart's content. It's in Adobe pdf version. And to enjoy it fully, we assume you have Quicktime, an mp3 player, and an image viewer. (most folks have all that stuff these days...)
Hope you're all having a safe holiday. (Read the rest. Click here)
"Does anybody know what Christmas is all about" (A Christmas Day Message)
Dec/25/2005 06:39 PM Filed in: Angels and
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"Does anybody know what Christmas is all about?" (A
Christmas Day Message)
Have you ever wondered why, in modern time, many of our myths about aliens from outerspace feature creatures that look somewhat human? I mean, think about it: a space creature could look like anything. It could be a blob creeping along the ground. But instead, many of the aliens of our modern mythologies have elongated faces, and big eyes, and strangely formed hand. But! They usually have two eyes...and a mouth....they often walk upright like we do.
Perhaps even in modern guise --even in the realm of science fiction, in our myths and messages from “beyond”-- we’re still really looking for a form we can understand and relate to; a form that looks almost human.
Whether it’s some modern mythology, or the Christmas story of 2,000 years ago, what we humans seem to yearn for is a word we can understand. A word that gets put in our language. A word that speaks to us on our level...
So, here’s a question for you: when was the first time that you clearly remember understanding the meaning of the Christmas message? Can you remember the moment it happened?
Because I can. And I have to tell you that even though I went to church religiously with my family as a child, it was not at church that first I learned the Word of the Christmas story. It was not at Sunday School. It was not in a sermon (something that humbles me constantly...).
No, it was not through any religious institution at all. (Read the rest. Click here)
Have you ever wondered why, in modern time, many of our myths about aliens from outerspace feature creatures that look somewhat human? I mean, think about it: a space creature could look like anything. It could be a blob creeping along the ground. But instead, many of the aliens of our modern mythologies have elongated faces, and big eyes, and strangely formed hand. But! They usually have two eyes...and a mouth....they often walk upright like we do.
Perhaps even in modern guise --even in the realm of science fiction, in our myths and messages from “beyond”-- we’re still really looking for a form we can understand and relate to; a form that looks almost human.
Whether it’s some modern mythology, or the Christmas story of 2,000 years ago, what we humans seem to yearn for is a word we can understand. A word that gets put in our language. A word that speaks to us on our level...
So, here’s a question for you: when was the first time that you clearly remember understanding the meaning of the Christmas message? Can you remember the moment it happened?
Because I can. And I have to tell you that even though I went to church religiously with my family as a child, it was not at church that first I learned the Word of the Christmas story. It was not at Sunday School. It was not in a sermon (something that humbles me constantly...).
No, it was not through any religious institution at all. (Read the rest. Click here)