Well, you'll be right on time for Christmas when you arrive in Grand Rapids tomorrow night!
Turns out, the 12 Days of Christmas just started yesterday with the partridge in a pear tree...Today is the second day of Christmas--two turtle doves, following up the four weeks of Advent. Who knew?
Christmastide is the 12 days between Christmas Day and Epiphany (our candle in the window until Jan 6th), including New Year's Eve. The Eastern Orthodox tradition keeps the 12-day Christmastide liturgical season. So really, the Christmas tree shouldn't go up until Christmas Eve, and it should stay up through Epiphany (you know, the magi).
So, I think I'm going to keep adding to our Christmas to Epiphany observations, and keep Advent the season of anticipation it was meant to be. It makes sense that Christmastide marks the winter solstice and the coming of the Light, and I don't want to rush or miss this season of extended celebration and reflection on the Incarnation, on our way to Epiphany.
There is plenty of time for us to celebrate our joy at Christ’s birth and we should make the most of it!
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