Rita Buettner

With snow last weekend and more expected this weekend, we are all in snow mode.

I was a senior in high school, and I was failing calculus. I had to be. I hadn’t understood a word the teacher had said for months, and I couldn’t recall passing a single quiz.

There’s no sign that says, “Jesus,” with an arrow.

You never want to see a business close, but seeing a local, family-owned business shut its doors after many years in the community is especially sad. So I was really sorry when I saw that Greetings & Readings is set to close later this month.

That single tree—a tree I had barely noticed before—was apparently such an obstruction between our homes that our paths had barely crossed. Once it was gone, we saw each other almost every day.

Christmas is coming, and bit by bit we are getting ready.

God knows we fail and gives us another chance, in Advent and in Confession.