CAPA Corner

            The shopping is done and we are now in “return mode”, taking back everything that doesn’t fit (my how we ate during these last few weeks), that we got two of and that we just didn’t want or need.  This coming Sunday, December 30 (in my particular faith tradition) is one of the lowest attendance Sundays of the year.  All the hype leading up to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day is over and everyone seems to be just breathing a huge sigh of relief: “Thank goodness that’s over!” everyone seems to be saying.

            However, in the tradition of the church, the next couple of weeks are actually the “season” of Christmas; remember those ‘twelve days of Christmas’  that the song sings about?  Like so many things in our lives that we want to rush through and be done with; we find ourselves putting Christmas behind us and moving on to the next best thing. 

            I would invite us to think of Christmas like a great meal, something to be savored and enjoyed for a while, not rush through just to be done with it.  Let us not be in too big a hurry to put ‘peace on earth’ behind us.  After all, a baby has just been born.  We need to take some time to enjoy the birth; to relish the gift of new life; to delight in the child who has come to bring light to a dark world.  May we hold on to the hope, love, joy and peace of this Christmas Season all through the year.

Marie Williams, Blackwater United Methodist Church