Christmas Isn’t Canceled
Christmas isn’t canceled. The New Year is coming, fresh and frosty.
A recent, widely shared tweet says, “Honestly, I hadn’t planned on giving up quite this much for Lent.”
The Friday before the first weekend in Advent, I had only just arrived home when my nearly four year-old son asked if we could begin decorating right now! My wife and I agreed (after dinner). We said that, with our nine month-old beginning to sit up and crawl, we could decorate only at a height out of her reach. We’d set up our little Christmas tree: one that fits on a table top.
“But we already went to church today!” my son said plaintively. “That’s right,” I replied, but “it was my church;