We sent out about 200 Christmas letters and cards to our closest friends, not including those in Mobile. Jonah MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Brenners! e-mail edition. . . (our snail-mail address is: 51 Eliza Jordan Rd., Mobile, AL 36608) 1996. It’s been quite a year…we added a major addition on our home for Dottie (Sarah’s mom), Benjamin spent 3 1/2 months in Singapore, Joanna worked the summer in Virginia, Stephanie and Nathan have been negotiating with Robert and Sarah, we gained a new sister, and Jim (Robert’s dad) died in our home. Our Lord has been in the midst of…
My brother is in the living room, listening to early 80’s Michael W. Smith and knitting. I have this habit of sticking my head into his room and asking him what he’s listening to if I’m not familiar with it. It may bug him, I don’t know, me checking on him like that. Sometimes I’ll just poke my head in to see what he’s doing, even if his door is closed. I know it would drive me crazy if he did that to me. Today he was listening to some full orchestral work. “Guess,” he said when I asked him.…