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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

BAYFIELD ALMANAC CHRISTMAS GREETINGS


CHRISTMAS 2014
CHRIST CHURCH, BAYFIELD

Dear Friends :
   Yet another year has slipped by, and we are thankful for good health and all the blessing of this life, in particular our children and grandchildren.  Joan had cataract surgery on both eyes and now can see well again and can drive long distances and at night. We truly live in an age of miracles, but also of great turmoil and tragedy.
   Art often remembers the singing of Silent Night, in English and then in German, in the Lutheran Church of his youth in Milwaukee.
 
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hochheilige Paar.
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!

   And he remembers his mother telling of sitting huddled in the back of the wagon with her siblings, coming back from town on a cold winter’s evening, and his grandmother telling them in German, “Be still, we’ll soon be home.”
   May we all experience God’s peace and good will this Christmas, and in the New Year to come.

Art and Joan Ode

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