Review on A CHRISTMAS CAROL

I have been literally enthralled and transported to another era and glory of merry Old England as I listened to Charles Dickens, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, a brilliant Christmas gift given by Jon M.
As I listened to this book-on-cd, I was lost in the narration and found myself at school without noticing the anguish and challenging byllyishness (if there is such a word) of traffic. What a way to “go”!
Many know the story of the peevish Scrooge and his tight-fistedness, the appearance of four apparitions which showed him his past, present and the future outcome of his stinginess and cold heartedness. Ultimately, he humbled himself before his accusers and changed his life to the good. It has a wonderful finale and I laughed and cried along with old Scrooge.
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Part IV Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The footsteps that Alice heard pattering were not those of the mouse. Rather, they belonged to the White Rabbit who was muttering to himself about the Duchess executing him for he could not find his fan and gloves. When he sees Alice he calls her MaryAnn and commands her to go home at once and fetch his gloves and fan. Now Alice, who had lastly shrunk from holding the Rabbit’s fan, runs off in fear to try to find his fan and gloves. (What a turn of events. First Alice pursues the White Rabbit down a hole and now the White Rabbit is telling Alice what to do. My, but we should be careful what we chase after.) Soon she comes to a house with a brass plate which reads W Rabbit. She doesn’t even knock but runs in and upstairs to try to locate these items before the housemaid, that she supposes is MaryAnn, finds her and puts her out of the house.
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Part III Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

If you recall, we ended Alice’s last adventure with the birds and animals and Alice swimming from her pool of tears to shore. What a bedraggled, ‘queer-looking party’ stood on shore. (My! but our lack of self-control can have serious repercussions on so many others besides our self.) Thankfully,Mouse had a plan though on how to dry them out. He had them all sit in a circle and proceeded to tell them a very dry historical account of William the Conqueror. When that failed to dry them, Dodo proposed a Caucus Race. Each participant, starting at different points, ran in a circle for about a half hour until they were all quite dry and then Dodo called the race announcing each one a winner. Alice was appointed to hand out the prizes, comfits retrieved from her own pocket. Then Dodo presented Alice with a prize…her own thimble. (Alice thought this all so absurd. Yet it is interesting how we humans seem to need to be pampered with prizes, no matter how silly, in order to not be offended at being overlooked. Dodo may have been a very wise bird after all.)
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Part II Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

We left off in our last Wonderland Adventure with Alice having shrunk small enough to get through the door that leads to the beautiful garden, but having left the door key on the table. Failing in her attempt to climb up the table, she decides to eat a little cake left in a box under the table. Perhaps this will help her grow to reach the key. After finishing it off, she shoots up like a telescope but is much too large now to fit through the little door. Disregarding her own advice to stop crying, she sheds a pool of tears. Presently, seeing the rabbit, she implores his help but to no avail as she startles him so that he drops his glove and fan. Holding his fan, she realizes that this is causing her to shrink away again!
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Fruitless Win

I am a NFL football fan. Each season I start out watching football and having a favorite team and hoping we will make it to the playoffs and then Super Bowl. But, as the season progresses and my team has not won enough games to make it to the playoffs but have another game or two to go and then win, it is a FRUITLESS WIN.

Right after Jesus had finished his last Passover meal with His disciples He told them, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I set you that you should go forth and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you.” (John 15:16) It was not the mission of Jesus to send His disciples out to have fruitless wins. But, yet we have many fruitless wins. Why?


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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

For Christmas I received a ‘listening library’ of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from Jon M. I found it interesting on reading the cover of it that the author, Lewis Carroll was such a diverse person, a mathematician, photographer and clergyman. At Sara’s suggestion, I would like to share some observations and thoughts as I enjoy listening to this classic.
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I’m a Teapot

When I was little we didn’t go to the doctor much. There wasn’t enough money. Instead every time we were sick my Mom would drag out the china teapot and place a tablespoon or two of loose tea in the metal filter and fill the top with boiling water. The water would gradually drain through the filter. I would peer at the etching of a fireplace with a spinning wheel while the tea steeped. Then Mom would pour a steaming cup of the tea and stir in a tablespoon of honey serving with dry toast. The tea in our minds performed a miracle – a healing took place.
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