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Christmas Musings

Christmas Musings

On Christmas Eve, I was inundated with Facebook posts by friends showing their families sitting around tables, playing board games, putting puzzles together, and smiling at the camera with hot chocolate mustaches. Why didn’t I post any pictures like that? Well, my family had different ideas of what the idyllic Christmas Eve would look like. So, what was my family doing? You see, my husband works at a small local liberal arts college, and all of the students were gone…

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Advent Wreath

Advent Wreath

I’ll just say it – the Advent Wreath has always bothered me. It’s not symmetric. I like things to be even and organized (not that you’d know it by looking at my house), and the Advent Wreath has three purple candles and one pink one. That’s always bothered me. Why couldn’t it have two of each color? Or why couldn’t it have them all be the same color? As I’ve gotten older and learned more about the theology behind it,…

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