I’m standing the Christmas doing fine.
Most of my letters and cards are written and my last box went off today. -- Ina
Your box came the day after Xmas and so
prolonged it for us. I gathered them all around and all enjoyed the beautifully
wrapped gifts and the verses on them. The holly decorations were so lovely,
too. Shirley and Henry immediately began to further embellish the house with
them.
-- Ina
“It’s easier when Christmas falls at
the end of the week,” Ina muttered to herself as she rolled the pie dough. “Likely
the boxes I sent to day won’t arrive for Christmas, but that’s just the way it
is.”
Sadie was now officially “home for
the holidays” because of Christmas vacation. It would last until after the New
Year – and she’d heard from the other students that if it snowed, it might be
an extra long holiday. But – there wasn’t a lot for Sadie to do just now, so Ina
allowed her to look through the basket of Christmas cards again.
“Gram,” said Sadie suddenly, “why do
some of these cards have pictures of a ship? And we sing that carol, ‘I saw
three ships come sailing in.’ What does that mean?”
Ina, still making a pie for supper,
was taken aback. “Let me finish the pie. Then we’ll talk.”
When the pie was in the oven, Ina
sat down by Sadie, and together they looked at the cards in question. Ina
explained that camels are also called “ships” because they journey across the
desert, and three camels carried the three wisemen to Bethlehem. That might be
one meaning, she said, especially relating to the carol. Or, a ship might mean
Christianity or the church, guiding us over the sea of life to heaven and
eternal happiness.  |
| This card was sent by my mother & uncle in 1926. |
Sadie was thoughtful. Does the ship
hold special meaning for you?
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