Classes have been winding down here at Acorn, and our numbers have dwindled a bit. We've been keeping attendance stats for 3 years now and there doesn't seem to be any pattern related to weather or time of year. In any case, we are taking a 2 week break from English, computer and Spanish classes, resuming the first week of January. I was encouraged that even on Thursday, our last day of class for 2009, we had 4 first-time students show up.
As I mentioned in my last post, a couple of my Acorn friends have been going through deep waters, and so these past weeks have been filled with sadness. And yet in this Advent season, I want to rejoice with the angels who brought "good news of great joy that will be for all the people". The recent issue of Christianity Today had a wonderful editorial called The Joy-Driven Life that I highly recommend you read. Here's a quote from it, that was actually a quote from G.K. Chesterton: "A person is fully human when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial...Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live."
As we celebrate the scandalous visitation of God in the flesh, may we all know great joy!
Saturday, December 19, 2009
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