Good morning from crisp cool North Carolina on fine December Monday morning. Wendy and I took off Saturday afternoon and traversed north all the way to Commerce Georgia before bedding down for the evening. The most exciting part of our Saturday evening adventure was hitting downtown Atlanta, at dark and at the conclusion of the big SEC Championship game. Not exactly great planning or timing still we endured!
I did some googling early Sunday morning and realized we could make Mass in Greenville for 9 am at the church pastored by fellow blogger and well known priest. Father Dwight Longenecker. Indeed we made mass and indeed he was presiding. His church is obviously very old yet very functional but a big brand new church is under construction right out front. He gave an awesome homily explaining the important Advent link between the Old and New Testament and the role of John the Baptist in salvation history. Then he explained about another prophet, Mohammed, and he took great time to explain how we, as Catholic Christians, should view Islam and the current crisis with radical extreme terrorism from that small percentage of all Muslims. Yet Father was quite clear to differentiate that religion, faith, that comes from God, in its' fullness of truth, exists in the holy Catholic Church.
Once past Greenville we are only 3 hours from the family and we arrived just in time to tag along with the family to go shopping for the Christmas tree. Up here they go to a farm where you pick your own tree amidst fun things for kids to do and many picture opportunities and a nice warm barn serving hot chocolate and cookies. It was fun.
Our grandbabies are getting so big. Calvin is now 39 months old and still all boy! He needs no time any more to warm up to his Nona & Pops! Katelyn is now 5 months old and so much different in appearance and personality from our last visit when she was just 2 months old. We visited all evening. had dinner together and the retired for the evening.
This morning our top task was getting Calvin to school, from where we will pick him up this afternoon. Katelyn has her own routine so we will all be back together this afternoon around 4. For now our plans include some shopping, a nap and perhaps a movie; we shall see!
Good to be in North Carolina for sure and with our Tar Heel state family!
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