Advent Scriptural Reference for December 12, 2008
Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion!
See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the LORD. –Psalms 1:1
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I placed my last Gingerbread Donovan in the basket when the phone rang.
I checked my watch. 6:30pm. The party started in thirty minutes. I didn’t have time to drive, let alone talk. Yet I checked the caller ID anyway. Thank Goodness I did. It was Mama and she would have had a hot fit if I didn’t pick up.
I answered. "Mom, let me call you from my cell phone. Have to get to the party.""No need. Just checking to see if Donovan had picked you up already."
"Mama.." I sighed. "We’ve been through this before. I’m driving myself."She scoffed. "For something so important he should at least pick you up tonight. He never escorts you anywhere."
"Mom, that’s not true. But today there’s no time, I had to run home and bake the cookies.""What cookies?" Mama paused. "Please tell me you did not make that man those gingerbread cookies again.Lord, what you do for that man…"
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