Monthly Archives: December 2006

Finally I had time to go and see this film.  It pretty much follows the story.  As I commented to my friend that went with me – it is sort of the Readers Digest Condensed Version.  The time lines are condensed to make those Christmas card like scenes with the shepherds there and the wise men there with the light from the star glowing down onto them.  Now this may have been exactly as it was but of course there was no journey into the temple for the presentation and none of those prophecies spoken. 

The one thing I thought was out of place was the music.  I love Christmas carols but I doubt they were playing in the background as Mary gave birth.  A bit more Jewish music would have been appropriate  – just my own taste I suppose. 

I thought that the portrayal of Mary and Joseph was fairly realistically human and I appreciated that.  The angel was maybe not quite as splendid as to cause the shepherds or Mary to actually “fear”.  The chaos and brutality of Herod was there and certainly the injustice of this brutal regime was displayed well.  I doubt that it was any less brutal than what was portrayed.  Makes one a bit more able to portray the culture that Jesus was born into.

All in all not a bad film.  Could probably done just as well as an HBO movie but I’m glad I saw it on a big screen. 

Now to read The Real Mary by Scot McKnight to get a more scholarly picture. 

Sometimes it seems as if the routines are all that get me throught the day.  I can do them without thinking – much.  So off to work I go.

If I stop and think of all the things I have to do in this next week, my mind goes into overload and it seems as if the world is about to implode.  So I just do and keep doing till as much is done as can be.

This is not how I like to be.  I just have too many things I am committed to doing. 

I guess what gets done will get done and the rest we will live without, whether I like it or not. 

It is easier to go to work than to stay at home and see all the things I can’t do or don’t have time to do right.  Still I don’t like being like this. 

Even my computer seems to be doing crazy things – the time is off by almost half an hour.  Maybe I lost some time somwhere.  It seems like it.

This weekend is busy as it seems most of my time is.  The kids come and go doing their thing.  I catch up on groceries and we do laundry.  Really exciting stuff!

This weekend Patrick was us to help cut up the deer that he and Eric shot a while ago.  I guess the idea is to hang it so it “ripens” or something.  It was pretty frozen with our – 25 degree weather of the past weeks so all available heaters were conscripted to thaw it out.  Yesterday and today were cutting and wrapping days. 

While Patrick was here we got the bad news that Canadian immigration has denied his father a visa to come and visit the boys at Christmas.  Very hard news for Patrick.  He misses his father a lot.  Hopefully Patrick will get Canadian citizenship soon so that he can then travel more easily to visit with his dad when he travels to the states or Europe.  The Canadian immigration decision is just so wrong – so unjust – so biased.  So maddening!  So when I told Patrick the news we were on our way to the bus depot and he decided to stick around for the day.  I’m glad he did ’cause we got to have a good talk before he took the bus back to Saskatoon this evening.

Now the house is quiet.  The other guys are out playing soccer and Sara just left for her game which starts at the ungodly hour of 11 pm.  Hope she gets enough sleep tonight.

We seem to be in a perpetual state of car juggling.  That is my car is being shared by too many people that need to go in too many directions at once.  I think it  is Sara that uses it the most.  At least she has the courtesy to drop me off at work and pick me up.  And I get to use it some days and a few evenings – as long as I am home in time so the young lady can get to her soccer games on time. 

Oh well.  At least the car hardly gets time to cool down between uses.  Haven’t plugged it in yet.

We are ridiculously dependant on cars.  I need to get back out walking.  But the cold – and the slipperyness is a huge deterant.  So is my lazyness I guess.