Here I come......

Here I come or maybe I'm going----

Here I go a wandering (wassailing isn't what I'm doing, tho maybe a little "nog" would help the noggin'

Here I go a wandering from room to room to room

with the gifts, paper, ribbon & cards all a-scatter. 

The stockings are on the floor and not at the fireplace

But what does it matter!

A cucumber on my head reflects my state of mind so lean---

Only what counts gets done today, if you know what I mean.

So....Love and joy come to you, and you can wander, too.

Just ask God  to bless you and send you a Happy New Year

Because God would love to bless you and send you a Happy New Year 

....& I would as well, but gifts and cards have missed the date for mail...

 so I keep on a-wandering and praying for my friends, many of whom are now recipients of a cucumber so green!

Oh what fun it is to share and pass those cucumbers on...and on...and on! Thanks Carla!

ADVENT SUNDAY---a Liles tradition

For Christians thorough out the world, Advent is a time of "waiting"----waiting for the coming and acknowledging the birth of the Lord. It's a time of expectancy. A time to remember those who walked in darkness and then saw a great light. A life changing "Nativity" for us all.

At the Liles house, for as far back as I can remember, the 4 Sundays before Christmas have been a time of celebration and remembrance with an Advent wreath of candles, special devotions (mostly the same ones each year) and off-key singing of appropriate carols. Every one participates and younger ones get a small gift.

This year Owen was with us and he read Isaiah 9:6 and "lit" the "candle of faith". (Called by some the "candle of promise" as Jesus came as the Messiah promised by the prophet Isaiah.)

After we sang "O Come all Ye Faithful" Owen practiced "Scrooge-ing" out the candle---a Liles tradition since watching Barry Fuller as "Scrooge" in Theater Memphis' Christmas Carol, snuffing out his candle with his wet fingers!

Good job, Owen!