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Dear Sister,
Just wanted to convey my
prayers for you and your dear ones over the coming New
Year.... this won't be a lengthy diatribe!
I am still shocked and
stunned by the gobbling of land and lives in southeast
Asia. Ed and I are so grateful that our dear son and
daughter-in-law in the Philippines were unaffected by this
disaster and our hearts go out to you if you have family or
friends who was lost. The Adventist Development and
Relief Organization (ADRA) has an ongoing presence in
many of the countries of devastation. ADRA is well-known
for its disaster relief services, particularly where clean
drinking water is concerned. If you have not chosen a way
to give, please consider ADRA. Your generous donation will
definitely be used in the way you want it to be used. Read
more at
http://adra.ca/
Ed and I just returned from a
Christmas visit with our son, Conrad, on lovely Vancouver
Island. We definitely had angel guides there and home
again. We had planned to drive through the night yesterday,
but a tired Ed, coupled with snowy gusts and
ice-patches, prompted us to pull into a motel in a small
town in Alberta. As a result, we had one more night of
'junk TV' (we don't have any TV reception at home), enough
to last us for a good while I should think, and we had a
nice, clear, sunny, wide-awake ride today. We listened to
Peter Mayle's "Encore Provence" on tape.... that colourful
part of rural France is wonderfully drawn by Mayle. It's
very attractive to Ed and I, too, but we figure since we are
as austere as we are (non-alcohol-imbibing CHIP-eating
veggies) we probably will get as much fun from listening to
the tape books as we would have in the countryside itself.
And, since this is largely a
personal forum for yours truly these days, I thought I would
let you know that I am starting off the new year with a new
career.... I will be working with persons experiencing
dyslexia and reading lag. I am ever so pleased to have had the
opportunity to be trained by Bonnie Wilde, a lovely
Adventist woman who has ministered in this area for over
thirteen years.
Have yourself a cozy little
time over the next few weeks, doing what you need to do to
be close to God and your fellow humans.
In Christ,
Cynthia
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