Stepping away from the news and business this evening, I poked around on YouTube for a nice Christmas video to share with you.
For some reason I started wondering if Sitka, Alaska, where I’d spent 2-3 of my childhood years still celebrates Christmas.
I remember how Christmases there would light up the dark Alaskan winter. One year it seemed like half the town turned out in the late afternoon to skate on frozen Swan Lake late and roast marshmallows around a bonfire.
Sitka lies a little closer to the North Pole than central Texas does. I hope the Davis family will not mind if I share their public video of a beautiful carol sung by them for their congregation at Sitka’s Grace Harbor Church.
And I hope Nate and Genelle don’t mind my sharing their sighting of a breaching humpback whale in Silver Bay last Christmas Eve.
Somehow these beautiful recordings say exactly what I wanted to express to you this evening after a terrible week. I wish for all of you and your loved ones a wonderful, restorative holiday and a joy-filled New Year.
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