Let Our Lights Shine

Originally Posted 12/30/09 on Save the Farm blog:
I always go overboard with decorations at holiday time. Lights on the tree, lights bordering the windows, even lights on the pink tractor.

The lights shine especially bright this year because, against all odds, we are still in our house at Pink Tractor Farm.

The tussle with the bank goes on. We continue our trek through the labyrinth of this administration's Making Home Affordable Program which may or may not reduce our mortgage payment to manageable size. We have read the reports of how this program has actually benefited relatively few Americans for the long term so far. Still, we trek on.

In the meantime, the holidays were bright. Family and friends were with us. Our wonderful grandchildren stayed for nearly a week and will be back soon. We laughed and ate too much and prayed. We missed those who were absent and prayed for them also.

On the day after Christmas, Alice celebrated her sixty-ninth birthday, and Jonathan cooked!

It is a small miracle, or perhaps a large one, that we are still here in our cozy yellow house. We celebrate that miracle and wish that each and every one of you were here to celebrate with us.

Happy Holidays. Blessed New Year. Keep shining.