This is a wreath that Gerri, my roommate, and I made last year for a friend. She loved it and we were honored to help her decorate and pleased with the results of our love quest. But this year I just can’t seem to get into the spirit of Christmas.

Many nights now I have gone to bed, wrestled with the blankets, stuffed the pillow over my head, rebuked the demons harassing me in my mind, prayed, and finally end up getting up and playing games on the computer, and finally return to bed to fall asleep at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.

There is just so much going on in this world that seems to keep our focus away from the season. Hopefully not for you, but it sure has for me. Georgia, as most of you have heard, is eyeball deep in controversy over the mishandling, wait…