I sure was enjoying my Bavarian lunch a week ago today. The time just keeps flying. We sure did enjoy ourselves in Garmisch and thankful for the hospitiality and love of family from the Heckman's. Mags, Killian, and Syiah are amazing and wonderful kids...and so are Joannie and Eric! We got to meet a new friend, Olivia, what a wonderful name. The kids would have been happy if they could have just been left with Olivia and Lennie. My husband is a person that children just gravitate to him....I think they sense the peace and gentleness in him and he just feels safe. That is my Lennie!
We left on Friday at noon for Munich. We were going to have a great time at the Hofbrau Haus and go to the ChristKindel Market but my body had a different plan for me. I had such pain I stayed in bed all day Saturday. Lennie had a terrible sinus headache so we just warmed up in our hotel room bed and watched movies all day! We have been to Munich many times before so we decided this was God's plan for us not our plan! When we got up on Sunday morning I was feeling much less pain and Lennie was not as stuffed. So we ate breakfast and left on the train at noon for home. So our last trip to Munich for awhile was a visit at the Munich Marriott Courtyard....not a bad place it I say so myself...great beds and we caught up on movies...ha!
I must say and I have said it many times before to most of you, I would live in Bavaria if I could. I even suggested to Lennie we sell our house and move to Garmisch. I am serious. There is a peace and beauty there that just brings me to a place with the Lord I sense no where else. This town is magical at night. It truly feels so safe there. It is hard to believe that is was the heart of the Nazi movement and that so many awful things happened in and around there. The people are so friendly and kind and they ALL look like my grandparents'!! The The town lies under the strength of the giant mountain, the Zugspitz, just like in Heidi. That is probably another reason I love it...it is so Heidi! I love Heidi!
We got into the train station at Stuttgart and took the train to our bus stop and than from our bus stop 2 minutes away from home. We were home in 45 minutes from arriving at the train station. Why did America take the trains away and the buses..........only in the big cities....talk about saving money! Now, I am not going to say I do not like a car because there are days I would much rather get in the car and go straight to GO...but only a couple of more months and I will be back to a car and this will all be another memory!
Going to start some baking tomorrow and making candy for Lennie's office. I love doing this and thankful I have someone to do it for. We are still deciding if we are going to get a tree. I suppose we will, just a little one, probably from the florist already decorated. I do not think I could do without one but who knows, I have done with out other things since I have been here. I never thought in a million years I would be able to live without TV...but I have and life is so peaceful...there is that word again. And we only chose to read the news if we so desire. Everytime I read the news my heart is broken...I realized today we put our trust in men and they will probably let you down. We seem to forget without the Lord, and being human, we continue to be sinners. It reminds me of Psalm 2o:7, "Some trust in chariots and other horses, but I trust in the name of the Lord."
Yesterday it was to snow. It snowed about 2 minutes. It is December 2 and we still have not had one snow or a seriously cold day. Lennie said this time last year they were buried under snow and when I came to visit in January the snow was still on the ground. Since I am in Germany for only 42 more days I want snow and lots of it! Please!!!!
That is all for today. I cannot wait until Lennie gets home tonight. My new shipment of books have arrived. I am out of all my reading material. I had to stop reading my book about a first hand account at Auschwitz. I was having nightmares. One of the woman in the camp literally came in her wedding gown, still carrying her wedding bouquet. The SS disrupted her wedding and brought took the whole wedding party to Auschwitz. They were from the town and many of the towns people, like this lady and her wedding party, were thrown in the camp so the SS could have their homes and businesses as their own! I am getting more and more sensitive in my old age! Some would say I have been over-sensitive my whole life but this was in a selfish way, now it is a compassion I have never sensed before. I ache for what hatred and religion has done in this world and continues on...again as it says in Ecclesiastes..."nothing is new under the sun."
Friends and family do not let the season go to fast...enjoy and remember each day the reason for the season!!
Tschuss,
Debby
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