Advent24

 Welcome to the blog.  I wonder if there's anyone who has been here with me from the very first one which was in 2011? I wonder if I will be able to find anything remotely interesting to say this time round 😂  We shall see. A few weeks ago I was sitting at my kitchen table painting Jesus stones.  Its been a couple of years since Ive done it and Id forgotten how therapeutic it can be painting tiny smiling baby faces onto stones lovingly gathered from Newcastle beach. That particular beach has the perfect stones. They are smooth, clean, oval shaped and of a uniform size.  Our other local beach in Hollywood has hardly any stones and loads of shells.  Funny that, given its the same sea lapping the shores.  Anyhow, I got to thinking about stones and how significant they seem to be in the Bible. Right off the top of my head I was able to list off about a dozen instances where stones feature heavily..... so I thought that maybe this year I'd take 'Stones of ...