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Merry Christmas

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Hi Everyone,

This post is to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and all the wonderful things the holiday has to offer.  I’m going to be offline until the New Year.  Nothing’s wrong, just making plans, enjoying the season and most of all practicing what I’m calling “holiday hygge“.   Enjoying intentional downtime has been amazing.

  • Sipping tea
  • Reading books
  • Eating too many Christmas cookies
  • Going to concerts (a gift from my momma)

  • Receiving Christmas cards and handmade goodies in the mail (some from you all <3)

 

  • Going to bed early in my sheepy pjs
  • Enjoying the little Christmas tree on my work table if I’m not outside enjoying the larger one in the living room

  • Or simply lounging on my couch, watching my favourite Christmas movie

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  • and enjoying the view of my Edwardian themed Christmas window …

It’s nothing fancy or expensive, but making time to intentionally relax and not let the hustle and bustle of the season overwhelm has definitely done me good.

Cheers to you and yours and may this be a wonderful Christmas no matter your circumstance.  ❤

Pray For the World

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It’s not just Paris we should pray for.

It is the world.

It is a world in which Beirut, reeling from bombings two days before Paris, is not covered in the press.

A world in which a bomb goes off at a funeral in Baghdad and not one person’s status says Baghdad because not one white person died in that fire.

Pray for the world

that blames the refugee crisis for a terrorist attack.

That does not pause to differentiate between the attacker and the person running from the very same thing you are.

Pray for a world

where people walking across countries for months,

their only belongings upon their backs,

are told they have no place to go.

Say a prayer for Paris by all means,

but pray too,

for a world that does not have a prayer

for those who no longer have a home to defend.

For a world that is falling apart in all corners,

and not simply in the towers and cafes we find so familiar.

#prayfortheworld #weallarehuman #prayerworks

This is a repost of an IG post that really moved me.  Hard hitting truths and poignant observations of why some suffering gets coverage and others suffering in the same or worse do not.