GLENN MOLLETTE (cont.)

at the Christmas table. If this is you please cling to the hope of life beyond this world and that you will see your loved one again.

I believe throughout our planet that seeing our sick friends get well would make Christmas for all of us.

Christmas is different (again) this year. We must enter Christmas this year with hope. You have to have hope to live. Life without hope is like a car with no fuel. Last year, we wished for a vaccine for COVID-19. It came but the politics of it made us an even more deeply divided nation.

We are praying this divisiveness will end with 2021. We have hope that by next Christmas we can all get together and celebrate the end of this pandemic once and for all.

Keep in mind there has never been anything normal about Christmas. Mary and Joseph and the baby spent their first Christmas in a barn which was like a cave for animals. The baby was laid in a cow's trough for a bed. Christmas always has the potential of being very different.

Remember Christmas is in your heart and that's where your main celebration and hope lie. May hope and Christmas be bright and rekindled anew and afresh.

May you within your spirit hear the bells on Christmas day. And, may you hear the angels sing, 'Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to all men on whom his favor rests.'

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