{"id":1959,"date":"2024-12-16T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:11:23","slug":"getting-ready-for-christmas-some-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2024\/12\/16\/getting-ready-for-christmas-some-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for Christmas \u2026 some year"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" class=\"wp-image-1960\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2024\/12\/email-update-600x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2024\/12\/email-update-600x290.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2024\/12\/email-update-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2024\/12\/email-update-125x60.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2024\/12\/email-update-250x121.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2024\/12\/email-update-450x217.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2024\/12\/email-update.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy December! \u00a0Are you enjoying this advent season, getting ready to celebrate the birth of the Savior? \u00a0 Here in Senegal, as I work with colleagues in discourse analysis, we have been getting ready to celebrate. \u00a0It\u2019s been fun to be around for the putting up for Christmas trees, decorations, drinking of hot chocolate (and it\u2019s actually been chilly enough that a hot drink feels nice!), meditating on advent, etc. \u00a0<br \/><br \/>But we are also getting ready for them to celebrate someday with the people around them, the people who are currently offering sacrifices to spirits under many of the big, beautiful trees here, and who have no idea what Christmas is all about. \u00a0How are we doing that? \u00a0By studying the logic of the language, so that one day they\u2019ll be able to teach and translate and share the Christmas story (among so many others) in a way that actually makes sense and that makes it clear that God speaks their language. Lord willing they\u2019ll be able to share these truths with these people living in darkness within the next few years. \u00a0And what a privilege to help them be able to take a forward leap towards that day!<br \/><br \/>We\u2019re two weeks down and on our last week of this \u201cdiscourse party.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s going well and we\u2019re all learning a lot, so thanks for your prayers! \u00a0Please keep them coming, too, as we finish up later this week and I begin the long trip home (to My Country) for Christmas.<br \/><br \/>Thanks for your prayers for the other prayer requests I sent out last time. \u00a0Here are a few other answers to prayer:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Even though the car wasn\u2019t fixed enough to drive down on that Monday, we were able to drive down on Tuesday and started on Wednesday. \u00a0It <em>was <\/em>pretty nice to have another day to finish getting ready.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>I\u2019m feeling a lot better. \u00a0I think that I was just extra tired, and the three days at the beach let my body remind my brain that I really needed some more rest. \u00a0Here, though we\u2019re working hard, I\u2019m also able to get some good sleep, and that\u2019s been nice. \u00a0(It\u2019s handy that if people knock at the door early in the morning or late in the evening, they aren\u2019t here to see me!)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy December! \u00a0Are you enjoying this advent season, getting ready to celebrate the birth of the Savior? \u00a0 Here in Senegal, as I work with colleagues in discourse analysis, we have been getting ready to celebrate. \u00a0It\u2019s been fun to be around for the putting up for Christmas trees, decorations, drinking of hot chocolate (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}