It's been a very busy Christmas season, of course, even at Bible School. Right now they are setting up Christmas decorations all over the castle, especially for the northern english who come on holiday here for the Christmas/New Years season. They're not all red and green, the decorations...some look like the could be perfect for mardi gras. I kid you not. The Christmas concert, in which I performed, and co-directed the choir, and arranged music, went really well. There were a lot of old Brits who had been coming since the 70s who said it was the best concert they'd ever seen at Capernwray. It was fun, but I'm relieved it's over. I'm really excited to see my family this week. We're going to London for a few days, then joining every Thiel in Morocco (of all places). My prediction of the highlights: Seeing the Grecian urns in the museum (beauty is truth, truth beauty...keats...etc.) and Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera (some three-chord song show that's apparently really exciting)...don't exactly know what to expect from Morocco. Sunny weather?

Some Christmasy quotes from John Donne's Sonnets:

Oh let me then, his strange love still admire:
Kings pardon, but he bore our punishment.
And Jacob came clothed in vile harsh attire
But to supplant, and with gainful intent:
God clothed himself in vile mans flesh, that so
He might be weak enough to suffer woe.


And as a robbed man, which by search doth find
His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again;
The Son of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom he had made, and Satan stolen, to unbind.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!