Tag: love

The holiday rush seems to come earlier every year. Our family observes this phenomenon with a mingled sense of amusement and disgust. We share a mutual roll of the eyes at the glittering displays bombarding shoppers from the day after Halloween. Instead of “holiday spirit,” we find ourselves filled with a sense of sickness by the unbridled Christmas commercialism and the flood of Christmas songs on every radio station long before Thanksgiving. Even the premature downtown decorations have lost their charm in our eyes. These attacks on the heart of Christmas are a serious reality during Advent, especially when...