It has started to snow again and here is a snap-shot from our window.
It is very very quiet outside.
And then a photo of a mountain scene in the Montagu area in the South Cape - South Africa.
sparked off memories of past Christmases in South Africa.
and memories of Christmas in Germany
- I'm thinking of Christmas on the ostrich farm where my dad grew up. Oudsthoorn in the Karoo in the middle of summer is an oven!
- Gordon and I for Christmas in Germany with our children, heavy snow, the smell of the Christmas tree and a darting deer. Waking up to a winter wonderland.
- Christmas nursing Michael in Port Elizabeth who was terribly weak by then - outside the beach was packed. Time did not have meaning - there was love.
- Christmas in our respective childhood homes, trying to stay awake to "see if it IS Father Christmas who puts gifts next to our bed".
- Gordon remembers Christmas along the southcoast on summer holiday and being devastated when another boy told him there is no Father Christmas.
- Christmas in Port Elizabeth with lots of our children and friends - tables set for 25 people - what a buzz! And Christmas in Jeffereys Bay - right by a beautiful sea.
- Christmas in the East Cape with nativity plays in the farm church and real lambs.
- Christmas at our home, gifts under the tree and our small children playing surrounded by Christmas paper.
- Christmas in Cape Town.
And your Christmases?
Through all the years, all the Christmas seasons, Jesus is indeed Emmanual, God with us!
Through all the years, all the Christmas seasons, Jesus is indeed Emmanual, God with us!
