<div dir="auto">Thank you Pat. Your emails have been important, keeping us in touch with your progress through some very real challenges. And showing a resiliency of courage and hope that I hope I can emulate when my next times of trial descend. And meanwhile, you project the essential quality of enjoying what is given you to take part in. And appreciate. Have a good Christmas with your grown kids and whoever else is meaningful to you to share the special day with. It is such a special day! Celebrating God coming into the world to ensure we know of his love for us, imperfect as we are.<div dir="auto">All the best, Rosemary </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed., Dec. 20, 2023, 3:01 p.m. Patricia Smiley via Sundaycommunity, <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">Hi, all,</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">After hours of searching ecard sites and looking at every Christmas (hard vopy) being sold in the mall, I have decided to skip Christmas cards this year. For all of you who will be joining us through our Christmas Eve zoom mass, I will once again be wishing all the peave, joy, hope and love of the season then. For those of you who are elsewhere, I ho pe you are with family and loved ones at that time..</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I am preparing my home for Christmas Day, as I have invited my daughter, Ravhel, my son, Gabriel, anf their father Bruno to my home for a few hours then. I have put my newfound knitting skills (or perhaps found again) and hope they enjoy the blankets and scarves I've made them. And I hope others on my rather short list of gift recipients enjoy the pompoms as muvh as I have enjoyed making them.. I did reserve a couple for my own tree.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">AFter spending last Christmas in hospital I am happy to be home this year but I must admit it was only by chance that I found some of my favourite decorations - especially a beautiful creche that was a gift to me anf my then children a few decades ago. I thas everything - when I looked for a replacement many of the creches I saw had a baby with his prents but no angels, shepherds, animals or wise men. This is a little like Santa Claus being plastered everywhere.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">While you feasting anf making merry please think of those both abroaf in war zones and here in Canada lioning up at food banks. I pray in thanksgiving for my warm and cosy home and the ability to keep up with the rising cost of basiv healthy foof.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Love to all, Pat Smiley</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i>Patricia Smiley<br></i></div><div><i>email: <a href="mailto:smileypatricia76@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">smileypatricia76@gmail.com</a><br></i></div><i>mobile: 647-517-1599<br></i></div><i> <br></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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