Carol,

We Hope you and Mike have a nice chrismas together.

Ret and I. will visit Jackie Retta's sister, on Chrismas day. and Jean on 
boxing day.

while i'm writing, Please, may I say, a happy Christmas to you all on list, 
and a wonderful 2007.

love,

Malc and Ret.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol Pearson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: AT THE END OF ANOTHER DAY


> 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.
>
>