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Christmas . . . . I wish you all a Merry Christmas. I pray that you understand what the “true” meaning of the holy day is. It is the beginning of a wonderful story for the human race. A true story that tells us of the beginning of our salvation.

We all enjoy the current cultural activities that go on in our world, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as you don’t lose sight of the most important reason for the season.

Merry Christmas.

A O

Talking about stories.

I would love to read what historians write about the current political situation in the United States. Fiction writers couldn’t come up with a more interesting story.

It is certainly not the first time in history (as some people contend) that the current situation in Washington D. C. seems confusing, but it is certainly and interesting time.

I don’t understand how the passage of a law containing more than 1,500 pages could be cut down to only a few pages over one hundred. Thank heaven the 1,500 pages did not have a chance to pass and the 100+ page law did get passed (the lesser of two evils?).

Life is sometimes stranger than fiction and if things were not so serious, it might be funny.

A O

One of the more serious Activities going on in the world today, that doesn’t get very much national media interest is the war on Christians around the world.

Seems that in the country of Nicaragua in South America four Catholic Bishops have been exiled by the government. Recently, the government will not allow priests to anoint the dying in hospital.

Just as with the U. S. Congress, it seems somethings just never change in the world. Maybe the location or the people change, but what happens never does seem to change all that much.

A O

With this being the final issue of the paper for 2024, I want to pass on some actual quotes from accident reports submitted to various Insurance companies by policyholders. They were collected by the United Services Automobile Association. I think I may have read them some many years ago and I don’t know if I passed them on to you. However, they are worth reading again if I did (you never know where a little humor comes from):

• The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.

• I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment.

• In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.

• I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had the accident.

• An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished.

• The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.

• The telephone pole was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of its way, when it struck my front end.

And you think I write funny!

A O