Very lovely "sermon," Suffet, and I echo your sentiment of wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season and new year.

Here's my musical Christmas card.   (The pic is pretty lousy and the audio quality could be much better but you can "feel" the song and hear the lyrics - which is the point.)   Merry Christmas today from sunny-but-not-hot San Diego (where the natives wouldn't mind a little more rain at all!).

Genie