Merry Christmas...

I have not written for a long time! Fear of making un-keepable New Year resolutions keeps me from promising a change. But I do want to say Merry Christmas.

And I would like to give you two gifts.

First, a video by a great Portland band called the Decemberists!




Were any of you in Model UN?


Second, my favorite Christmas-ish scripture:

A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads.

The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Revelation 12:1-6