It's Christmastime!! :D

[April_Rose]

So I just had to play this song first. ;) (Yes I know Santa Claus isn't what Christmas is all about so don't even start with me I just see it as harmless fun.)

So anyways, what are you guys doing for Christmas this year? I'm staying home but still spending the holidays with my brother and niece. What I really want for Christmas this year is a Beagle and or tortoise, but I'll settle for anything else on my Christmas list as well which was;



1. Jumanji The Next Level

2. Two Brothers

3. My horse and me (Wii)




And some more Wii games and horror movies that I can list if you guys want me to, or I can just tell you what I got on Christmas morning,.. either way. :) @JohnDB, I know you've been dying for me to start talking about Christmas with you, so what are your plans this year? What do you want for Christmas this year? Have you already got all of your Christmas shopping done?

 

[April_Rose]

Oh and @Josho can chime in as well. (Or @historyb or anybody else who wants to lol)

 

[JohnDB]

Well...
Today I'm going to work on my destroyed kitchen.
Get it back to production level capable.
Then tomorrow I begin producing more candy centers and first batch of caramel.
Then Sunday I begin to melt and dip truffles.

I might need a few things that I'm shy on around here. So I might step out to grab them. I'm trying to avoid crowds. We have a huge pandemic here ATM.... hospitals are now using secondary areas to house patients. I really don't want to get out.

Then second batch of caramels.

Then it's time to begin making polar bear claws and turtles and coffee kahlua and mint sunflower molded chocolates.
Might do bottles or balls too...I'm not sure.

 

[April_Rose]

What do you want for Christmas though? And don't you dare tell me your two front teeth as I'm pretty sure that you already lost all of your baby teeth lol

 

[JohnDB]

What do you want for Christmas though? And don't you dare tell me your two front teeth as I'm pretty sure that you already lost all of your baby teeth lol

Nothing that can be bought.

 

[April_Rose]

Nothing that can be bought.

What do you mean by that? Family and friends? The pandemic to end? Or Trump to overturn the election or all of the above?

 

[Nancy]

Incarnation
by Pastor Chuck Swindoll
Romans 5:8
"EVERY YEAR, as Christmas draws nearer, I remember a story Paul Harvey told on one of his radio broadcasts. It's a tale that never grows old."

"One raw winter night the man heard an irregular thumping sound against the kitchen storm door. He went to a window and watched as tiny, shivering sparrows, attracted to the evident warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass.
Touched, the farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open the barn door for the struggling birds. He turned on the lights, tossed some hay in a corner, and sprinkled a trail of saltine crackers to direct them to the barn. But the sparrows, which had scattered in all directions when he emerged from the house, still hid in the darkness, afraid of him.
He tried various tactics: circling behind the birds to drive them toward the barn, tossing crumbs in the air toward them, retreating to his house to see if they would flutter into the barn on their own. Nothing worked. He, a huge, alien creature, had terrified them; the birds could not understand that he actually desired to help.
He withdrew to his house and watched the doomed sparrows through a window. As he stared, a thought hit him like lightning from a clear blue sky: if only I could become a bird—one of them—just for a moment. Then I wouldn't frighten them so. I could show them the way to warmth and safety. At the same moment, another thought dawned on him. He had grasped the whole principle of the incarnation.
A man becoming a bird is nothing compared to God becoming a man.
God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
ROMANS 5:8
The idea of a sovereign Being as big as the universe He created, confining Himself to a human body was—and is—too much for some to believe.
Christmas comes each year to draw people in from the cold. Like frightened sparrows, so many live their lives on the barren branches of heartbreak, disappointment, and loneliness.
That's why Jesus came."
Paul Harvey