Monday, December 15, 2014

In Case You Haven't Heard

So what kinds of displays are put into the display case in the foyer?  Here’s the current specimen. 
"Time to renew a warm spot for Christ who is born in us daily," it says.  So what's the tree about?  Well, it's an...
(the Latin identification for the Warm Spot tree belonging to the genus caring.(A little poetic liberty taken here.)
The tree limb has cards that demonstrate the actions that will provide a “warm spot” that the poster urges, to wit: “smiling at the unpleasant person,” “feeding the hungry person,” (the students have accomplished this recently with a 14,000 cans collected), “listening/talking to the lonely person,” and so on. 
The case also holds the traditional NDA Advent prayer which you may recognize
Have a blessed Advent, Reader, one filled with reminders of the Christ who is born in us daily.
                        And of course a very, very blessed Christmas!