A sweet Blessing Sent 2012 Christmas Season

Every year for nearly the last 20 years we have been going to what we call Christmas House Hopping until this year. A few people cook up a bunch of their favor goodies, heavily decorate their homes and on an hourly basis we go from house to house to enjoy each other’s companionship. At the last house we party until late into the evening.

I must have pulled a muscle or bruised a rib as I had a very sharp pain in my side that I could not tell what the problem was. It was located in an area that it could have been any number of key organs. The pain was severe enough that I did not set the alarm thinking I might end up needing to call the paramedics at some point in the middle of the night. It hurt to breath, sit, and stand, just about anything. So we had to opt out of the annual house hopping party.

So while we were at home the dogs started barking and Val noticed a bunch of flash lights around the front of the house. I did not grab my gun, but I did have quick access to it if needed as this was highly unusual. When I peeked out through one of the small windows I noticed the people did not have police uniforms on but had Christmas like garb. Once opening the door, I think I might have surprised them a bit as they had not yet knocked or ring the doorbell that we remember. What we found was some very harmonious Christmas Carolers which while in pain was very uplifting. They were from a local church and did not try to convert us or anything like that. Here are a couple of shots.