... . Thank the good Lord her husband Joe had agreed to go light on Christmas this year. There would be no pine needles to sweep up afterwards, no mountain of dishes to wash, no holiday visitors. They would eat out Christmas Day. And if she kept the kitchen curtains drawn, there would be no Chris Martin to remind her of Jeremy. Later in the afternoon, from the living room window, she was surprised to see Chris's father, George, in his driveway, taking a magnificent evergreen off the roof of his car. "It's two ...
... ," these burly security guards flex their muscles and shout, "No way!" Because of this, on The Holy Trinity and every Sunday, Christians respond to God's grace by doing two important things. We recite the creeds and we sing our lungs out! ... outcroppings and I pray, "It is good, Lord." I sniff the sweet aroma of vanilla carmel floating through the air from the Ponderosa Pine and I murmur, "It is good, Lord." I see a cottontail rabbit and my tethered dogs go berserk. I whisper, "It is good, Lord." I ...