It's been quite awhile since Christmas but here are a few pictures from that day.
Godsend was full with 21 here to sit down for dinner!





Yeah, there was a sense of loss with two such hugely important people as Sally and Grandma Betty not here to be involved in all the preparations or the actual sit down to dinner but with so many still to gather, well that sense of loss is definitely tempered. There are so many of us!

It is odd how this sense of loss is just there all the time now but just not quite as painful as it was a month ago. I am reminded of that passage in Ecclesiasties that says there is a time for everything. Here it is:

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven-- 2 A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. 3 A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up. 4 A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance. 5 A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. 6 A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. 7 A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak. 8 A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace