I bought this in Cuanvarca in Mexico, when we took a Group of Berkshire Guides and Leaders on a trip to Our Cabana, A World Guiding Centre. 

It is a half walnut, and has a piece of glass over it, so imagine the size and the person who carved it.

A Blessed Advent and Christmas. Jane Bingham

 Mark 13:33-37

33 Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come.

34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.

35 Watch therefore--for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning--

36 lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.

37 And what I say to you I say to all: Watch."

Music for today..

https://spauls.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hymn-Hark-the-glad-sound.mp3