I’ve just returned from a Christmas Eve service in a small town called Lausen (not to be confused with Lausanne). The Stuecklin family had four of us from church over for Christmas Eve supper. We had a traditional dinner of sloppy joes for the practical reason that we all wanted to spend our time enjoying the company and not working in the kitchen. After dinner we sang carols and read the Christmas story from Luke. I played oboe and Cornelia and Stephan played piano. I can’t get enough of singing in intimate groups like that. At 10:30 we walked to a local church and enjoyed an 11pm service all in Swiss German, with the exception of the hymns which were in high German, though we sang Go Tell it on the Mountain in English. :) Both in the church and at the Stucklin’s the Christmas tree had real candles. The trees are much thinner than what I’m used to, but the bare simplicity and that live light of the candles makes for a really beautiful picture.
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