We had a beautiful fresh cover of snow yesterday. This time we had all three out to play.
They took a spill, got up and went again!
When they came in they had rosy cheeks, and then we started a fire in the fireplace and got cozy warm.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
CHRISTmas & Hope!
Dear Readers,
I received this today from Chuck Colson. It is a must read.
I had first heard the account from my brother Dale.
Thru a choked-up voice and near tears, he told of the comments he had heard that day on the radio.
It is a story of hope and love for you to be encouraged by....
_________________________________________
Christmas and Hope
A Testimony Amidst Tragedy
December 24, 2008
Dong Yun Yoon of University City, California, will never forget this Christmas. Two weeks ago, his family was killed when a Marine F-18 Hornet fighter jet lost power and crashed into his home.
In an instant, this season of joy become a time of unimaginable sorrow for Yoon.
However, his response to the tragedy can only be described as a great gift to all of us.
The plane’s engines failed during a training flight off the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.
The pilot, Lt. Dan Neubauer, tried to reach Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego but wound up safely ejecting from the plane about two miles from the station.
The plane crashed into the Yoon’s just-moved-into home. Young Mi Yoon, their daughters Rachel and Grace, and her mother were killed.
While the tragedy was front-page news, what happened next captured the imagination of the country.
The next day, an understandably devastated Yoon told reporters that he didn’t have any “hard feelings” toward the pilot and that he knew that the pilot “did everything he could.”
Not only that, Yoon said, “I pray for him not to suffer for this action,” and called him “one of our treasures for the country.”
Having embodied grace and forgiveness, Yoon then told reporters what made it possible: “I believe my wife and two babies and mother-in-law are in heaven with God,” and he prayed with other family members and friends.
Yoon’s words and actions reminded Adrian Hong, a human rights advocate, of the circumstances surrounding the writing of the hymn “It Is Well with My Soul”—in both instances, tragedy and sorrow were turned into a great witness to the power of Christian hope.
There’s another hymn this episode brings to mind—“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” by Charles Wesley. In the last stanza we sing that Jesus was “born that man no more may die” and “born to raise the sons of earth.”
While we may not associate Christmas and the Incarnation with our Lord’s victory over death, the Church fathers did.
In “On the Incarnation of the Word,” Athanasius wrote that it was because all of us were “under penalty of the corruption of death” that the Word took “to Himself a body capable of death.”
Since the Word “by His one body has come to dwell among” us, “the corruption of death which before was prevailing against [Man] is done away.”
As a result of what Athanasius called “His gracious coming among us,” “the way up into the heavens” is “made ready” for those, like the Yoons, who put their faith in him.
This “new beginning of life for us” and the graciousness that makes it possible is at the heart of the Christian hope. It consoles us and enables us to be gracious even when our world is falling apart.
It is this hope, born on the first Christmas, that Peter tells us we must always be ready to explain. Dong Yun Yoon certainly was. For that, he has my gratitude and prayers.
___________________________________
As we give thanks this CHRISTmas for HIS fist coming...
may we be ever mindful of HIS second coming.
And proclaim with all believers.... "Maranatha, come LORD Jesus come!"
Merry CHRISTmas!
Duane
I received this today from Chuck Colson. It is a must read.
I had first heard the account from my brother Dale.
Thru a choked-up voice and near tears, he told of the comments he had heard that day on the radio.
It is a story of hope and love for you to be encouraged by....
_________________________________________
Christmas and Hope
A Testimony Amidst Tragedy
December 24, 2008
Dong Yun Yoon of University City, California, will never forget this Christmas. Two weeks ago, his family was killed when a Marine F-18 Hornet fighter jet lost power and crashed into his home.
In an instant, this season of joy become a time of unimaginable sorrow for Yoon.
However, his response to the tragedy can only be described as a great gift to all of us.
The plane’s engines failed during a training flight off the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.
The pilot, Lt. Dan Neubauer, tried to reach Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego but wound up safely ejecting from the plane about two miles from the station.
The plane crashed into the Yoon’s just-moved-into home. Young Mi Yoon, their daughters Rachel and Grace, and her mother were killed.
While the tragedy was front-page news, what happened next captured the imagination of the country.
The next day, an understandably devastated Yoon told reporters that he didn’t have any “hard feelings” toward the pilot and that he knew that the pilot “did everything he could.”
Not only that, Yoon said, “I pray for him not to suffer for this action,” and called him “one of our treasures for the country.”
Having embodied grace and forgiveness, Yoon then told reporters what made it possible: “I believe my wife and two babies and mother-in-law are in heaven with God,” and he prayed with other family members and friends.
Yoon’s words and actions reminded Adrian Hong, a human rights advocate, of the circumstances surrounding the writing of the hymn “It Is Well with My Soul”—in both instances, tragedy and sorrow were turned into a great witness to the power of Christian hope.
There’s another hymn this episode brings to mind—“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” by Charles Wesley. In the last stanza we sing that Jesus was “born that man no more may die” and “born to raise the sons of earth.”
While we may not associate Christmas and the Incarnation with our Lord’s victory over death, the Church fathers did.
In “On the Incarnation of the Word,” Athanasius wrote that it was because all of us were “under penalty of the corruption of death” that the Word took “to Himself a body capable of death.”
Since the Word “by His one body has come to dwell among” us, “the corruption of death which before was prevailing against [Man] is done away.”
As a result of what Athanasius called “His gracious coming among us,” “the way up into the heavens” is “made ready” for those, like the Yoons, who put their faith in him.
This “new beginning of life for us” and the graciousness that makes it possible is at the heart of the Christian hope. It consoles us and enables us to be gracious even when our world is falling apart.
It is this hope, born on the first Christmas, that Peter tells us we must always be ready to explain. Dong Yun Yoon certainly was. For that, he has my gratitude and prayers.
___________________________________
As we give thanks this CHRISTmas for HIS fist coming...
may we be ever mindful of HIS second coming.
And proclaim with all believers.... "Maranatha, come LORD Jesus come!"
Merry CHRISTmas!
Duane
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Noah Alan Wolff
Here are a few photos of Noah, taken on Tuesday by Michelle Castro, a friend of Meg & Bry and an accomplished photographer, I might add... as one photographer to another.Michele's studio name is; Grace & Joy Photography. Kudos, Michele.
Duane
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Walking the Father of the Bride neighborhood
Here are some photos from our walk of the Father of the Bride neighborhood.
The lights of Christmas – The Grove , Hollywood, CA
Here are some photos from tonight in Hollywood.
I was there… really! I guess I took most of the photos today. - Duane
Friday, December 12, 2008
Christmas Lights & a date with Lillian
We took a stroll thru neighborhoods near Bry & Meg’s. Lillian was our escort.
Here is a photo essay of the event.
More, of Noah Alan Wolff – 12/12/2008
Here are a couple from today.
Noah visited Dr. Kim at the Pediatrician’s office & weighed in at 7# 8 oz. on the 10th day, of his young life. Now he’s playing with tow trucks!
Duane Alan visits Noah Alan & family
Here are some photos from last night and today.Bry worked today and got home a few minutes ago.
Tomorrow we plan to visit a park during the day, and look at Christmas lights and eat out later in the evening.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Staining & Varnishing in Camelot
Well here is a photo from "inside" Camelot!It is still a work in progress.
Last coat of varnish applied, next step is to clean-up this "construction zone" and get packin'.Tomorrow I get to meet little Noah!
Yeah!!!
Later tonight, I might even post another photo with the "zone" cleaned up... So Sandra doesn't think she'll return to a disaster!
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Here are two photos of today.
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