It’s Christmas Eve. I hear a lot of firecrackers from every direction in our neighborhood. I lament that most of the Christmas decorations in people’s front lawns have little or nothing to do with the baby Jesus. I have truly enjoyed participating in various activities leading up to Christmas–decorating the church, practicing for the choir Christmas program, I even helped make my own opportunity to go Christmas caroling this year, something that is almost a thing of the past. This evening