Thanks, Joe and LR. I appreciate your kind words.

Joe, the things you mention have been appropriated or become synonymous, as I said, with Christianity.

Four doors down from us, on our block, is a house with a huge lit up cross in their window. That is fine, it does not bother me and they are just showing their belief in their "reason for the season." But, it set me to thinking and wishing there were some specific ways that I could show our way of honouring the season, too.

Thanks very much,

kat