http://brianjbecker.com/africa/christmas-day/ From the American Southwest to the Heart of Africa Sun, 20 May 2012 01:21:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://brianjbecker.com/africa/christmas-day/#comment-418 Katie Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:23:11 +0000 http://brianjbecker.com/?p=86#comment-418 Your Christmas sounds meaningful and quite fun. :) I'm glad you had a good, if "different," kind of Christmas. We just returned from the usual gathering with my family in Phoenix, and it was definitely good to be there with them, but I thought at the end of the day about how little our celebration had to do with Christ. It made me sad - I guess I don't know what else to do? Your Christmas sounds meaningful and quite fun. I’m glad you had a good, if “different,” kind of Christmas. We just returned from the usual gathering with my family in Phoenix, and it was definitely good to be there with them, but I thought at the end of the day about how little our celebration had to do with Christ. It made me sad - I guess I don’t know what else to do?

]]> http://brianjbecker.com/africa/christmas-day/#comment-404 AJ Buerer Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:52:55 +0000 http://brianjbecker.com/?p=86#comment-404 That's quite different from the typical American Christmas that I experienced. Though we had large, fun, friendly family gatherings on both sides of my family, and though my dad's side is mostly Christian, it was largely unreligious and felt empty. I wrote a post about it on my LJ blog: http://abuerer.livejournal.com/102314.html That’s quite different from the typical American Christmas that I experienced. Though we had large, fun, friendly family gatherings on both sides of my family, and though my dad’s side is mostly Christian, it was largely unreligious and felt empty. I wrote a post about it on my LJ blog: http://abuerer.livejournal.com/102314.html

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