I Love It Here!Sauk Centre This Season |
Driving around Sauk Centre in December, especially at night, is a trip through a sort of fairyland. A few households put a great deal of effort into their displays: lighted wire sculptures of reindeer, trees loaded with glowing lights and Santa-heads, festoons of lights and greenery, and crowds of glowing plastic snow-people. This family has most of our Christmas decorations up by mid-December, although of course the Christ Child won't be in the crèche until Christmas. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day finally come, the time of year when we celebrate the coming of our Lord into this world. Now it is time to say: Merry Christmas!"Glory to God in high heaven, peace on earth to those on whom his favor rests." Luke 2, 14
"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we have seen his glory: the glory of an only Son coming from the Father, filled with enduring love." John 1, 14 By New Year's Day, people are taking down their Christmas decorations: I'd just as soon celebrate Christmastide from a little before Christmas Day to Epiphany. Which is what we do in this household. The street department was takes down the holiday decorations in the first week of the new year. Some people still have their outside displays lit up, but most of that ends on the weekend.
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