Hi all,

Well, we're nearing the end of another Sunday which has been quite a busy 
one.  We went to take carol service at another establishment where elderly 
people live.  It was all a bit hurried, organisationally, and folk were 
tired from lots of Christmas type engagements.  With some reluctance, Mike 
and I sang again, as we had at the ladies' lunch.  I just felt, "God, rain 
down your Spirit on that place and those people".  There seemed a hardness 
there and it was a real effort for us to go out and do it again.  Somehow I 
kept thinking, "Why don't the young people go out and about and do these 
things, as we did when we were young?"  Then I remembered that nobody else 
would go in the place of Jesus to die for us, and that made it worthwhile 
for me, even if the going was tough.  With additional pain in my spine and 
neck, as well as difficulty in singing, this was not one of my easier and 
most enjoyable assignments.  Now Christmas will soon be here.  Mike and I 
will stay home together.  Please pray I'll be able to make our meal 
enjoyable to us both and that we'll have a good time, even without any 
family and probably no friends around either.

What are you all going to be doing?  Do you have a flurry of engagements 
still to do beforehand?

My love and prayers are with you all.

--
Carol - Reading, UK

To you, o Lord, I lift up my soul;
In You I trust, o my God.  . . .."  PS25:1-2 NIV.