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Unwrapping Christmas
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Unwrapping Christmas
By Derl Keefer
December 21, 20084th Sunday of Advent (B)Luke 1:26-38In a Christmas sermon, Billy Strayhorn, wrote that modern technology was making it much more difficult to "unwrap" Christmas: "It has given us shrink wrap, which defies all attempts to tear it. We have fiber strapping that some knives won’t cut. And we have adhesives that you can’t get off with dynamite."2Over the years my family has enjoyed Christmas morning with its traditions. Even as my children have now become adults, we still...

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