New Year’s Eve 2022

 

 

Years ago we would celebrate New Year’s Eve with a couple we’ve known forever. We’d drink a lot and eat a lot and just have fun. For awhile we would rent the most awful movie we could find and watch that. Mostly, though, we’d play games until midnight. Dominoes, Scattergories, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Milles Borne, Boggle.

 

The last few years we haven’t done any of that because: grandchildren.

We usually have Lia from Christmas through New Year’s. And now our friends have a grandson and spend it with their son and family. I also think I’m getting a bit old to do a lot of partying until midnight. My party chops ain’t what they used to be.

 

So as the ball gets ready to drop we’ll probably sit back and relax with a cup of hot chocolate (with Kahlua in it!) and listen to Home Free sing the traditional song. Click on the video and then return to this page and sing along…Cheers! Happy New Year! God grant you and yours a blessed 2023!!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcSfqYqHs4

 

(Sorry about the stupid ads before the song starts…)

 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?

 

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne

 

And here the hand, my trusty friend

That gives a hand to thine

We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer for Christmas Eve

 

Here is the emptiness of my night -

may it be filled with Your glory.

 

Here are the silences of my heart -

may they be filled with Your songs.

 

Here is the watchfulness of my eyes -

may they be opened to wonder.

 

Here is the listening of my soul -

may it hear the joy of Your love.

 

Here is the hopefulness of my journey -

may it lead me swift to Your side.

 

Here is the searching of my anxious mind -

may it find rest in Your peace.

 

Here is the wood and straw of my days -

may they be a bed for Your presence.

 

And here is the humble cave of my life -

may it be Your home, gentle Saviour.

 

Amen

 

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100 Books – part 6

 

More from the list of books everyone should read in their lifetime.

 

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

I had to read this in junior high. Most of Salinger’s stuff is pretty depressing, but I still enjoyed this book. I used to have a copy of it, but it got lost along the way. When going through this list of books for the blog, I decided to get me another copy.

 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

I did NOT read this or see the movie. I tried to read it, but found pretty quickly that it was not something I wanted in my head.

 

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

I’m pretty sure I had to read Anne Frank’s book in junior high. I knew her story and it saddened me a great deal when I got to the end and knew there would be no sequel. The Hiding Place was an outstanding book and movie. Corrie is one of my heroes.

 

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Both of these are awesome books and should be read by kids and grownups alike. And yes, I was sad when Charlotte died. And no, I still do NOT like spiders in any way, shape or form. The Wind in the Willows was epic.

 

The Good Earth and Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck

Such marvelous writing! Dragon Seed was pretty brutal, since it dealt with the time of the Nanking Massacre. But great reading, both of them.