December 15, 2016

December 15th -- Thursday -- Can you believe it? 10 days until Christmas. What's really cool is that Christmas falls on Sunday this year -- going to Christmas services is always great and moving, and voices raised singing Christmas carols. There's nothing like it. There are at least 75 poinsettias spreading over the stairs leading to the altar and four huge untrimmed trees behind the altar. It's glorious.
All of you have your trees up and decorated? You have presents under the tree unless you have little kids who will shake them to death or critters who will gnaw on them and bat them around the living room. Lights on outside? All is good? Okay, time to take deep breaths and bask in the beauty that is with us now. I want to know who among you is alone this Christmas and I want to know why.