Week 36 - Christmas Presence

We've been blessed with a lot of great Christmas presents this year, and many of them arrived just in the last two weeks. Last week, it was furniture for our banquet hall. This week, we received our kitchen equipment, consisting of ovens and warmers, mixers and grills, fryers and work tables, sinks and coolers, all wrapped up and ready to be put under a very big tree.

This week we also received tile in our hallway, electrical outlets and light fixtures, bathroom partitions, hookups for our air vents, speakers in the banquet hall, and more. Pictures are in the photo album.

That's a lot of nice presents. But the truth is, the best presents of all aren't actually presents. They're presence. It's your presence at church as we celebrate our Christmas masses. It's being present with your family, with your friends or co-workers, or even with strangers in their gathering to share the joys of the season. And best of all, it's the presence of Jesus in our lives, through the little babe in the manger, and through his spirit in each of us to each other.

Merry Christmas!