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Are you counting “sleeps” at your house until the BIG day, Christmas? Maybe you have events happening several days in a row that are all to do with Christmas. Then it becomes a matter of preference to say which day is the one you look forward to most, isn’t it?

Dad and I had a mini-Christmas event on Wednesday evening when my brother and sister-in-law came over on their way to their married children for their family gathering over the holidays. It all seemed to be over so quickly.

It happens that Dad has started coughing too. I began last week with what must have been pneumonia. The doctor even gave me antibiotics. I’m still coughing but now I’m fairly sure it’s pleurisy, which is an infection of the lining around the lungs.

With all that in mind, we are looking forward to a quiet, tame little Christmas. Probably together with my brother Tom, but we’ll have to check to see how he is feeling, and how willing we are to ignore each other’s germs.

With the upset of my schedule, I’m a day late, and I’m sure you have more family oriented things on your mind at this time, so all I want to do today is wish you good health and God’s best blessings upon you and your family over this Christmas-time.

No matter whether or how you celebrate, I would like for you to enjoy the people you are with, and to be cheerful and glad, and laugh a lot, and thus be refreshed through and through.

We’ll all buckle down to our business again in the new year, right? For now, let’s take some time off - if it is possible - and revel in the fact that God loves us.