I don't know about you, but the hardest things for me to toss at the end of Christmas are the Christmas cards that have arrived from across the country throughout the season. I know that keeping them serves no logical purpose, and I know that if I do keep them, I'll end up like my mom with a large shoe box full of 20 years of Christmas cards in my linen closet, still I can't help but squirrel those cards away. People that I know and love - or at least, people that I know - …
Fourth Day of Christmas
The fourth day of Christmas was also the second Sunday of Advent, so we attended mass. For the second week in a row, I stumbled through the "new" service now that the Church has changed all the responses and some of the prayers. Don't get me started on the fact that maybe it wasn't the words that needed changing but some of the actions. *Sigh* Anyway, it's not easy re-learning after 36 years of doing it a certain way. Coincidentally enough, the homily was all about the merits of change. …
