Christmas Wishes

I’ve been burning the proverbial candle at both ends this week getting ready for Super Bowl Sunday, er, Christmas Eve. We’re ready to welcome the crowds (about 1800 people over six services). If you are planning to join us, services are at 10AM, then 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11PM. I’ll be the one drinking the warm milk left out for Santa at about 1AM Christmas morning.

That said, here are a few random Christmas wishes:

  • I wish for my beloved Pittsburgh Penguins a long life in the ‘Burgh, though things look bleak right now. I love the team, but my stomach turns to see my home state caving into slot machines as the answer to their financial woes. Slots were supposed to fund the new arena, which would leave me in a quandry–is it morally repugnant to root for a team in a building built on the backs of the mathematically challenged, since gambling is essentially a tax on people who can’t do math and calculate odds? Yeah, it probably is…
  • I wish our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan a Christmas Day without any incoming. I pray for these men and women and the really untenable position into which they have been sent.
  • I wish that people wouldn’t wait until two days before Christmas Eve to do all their shopping at Costco because the parking lots are a mess and there’s no place to sit while eating your $1.50 hot dog and drink special. How would I know this? Well…
  • I wish my friends and family on the Front Range of Colorado a decent melt-off by Christmas Eve. My foster brother sent me pictures of his house, which looks like a World War I battlefield with 4 ft. trenches running everywhere.
  • I wish that I could magically consume all the chocolate that I’ve been given in the last two weeks without gaining a pound.
  • I wish you and yours a blessed Christmas, and that you’ll remember that the real gift is Jesus.
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