A Positively Poetic Priest

Have you ever been in the situation when you get out of the bath or the shower and you forgot to get a towel out and you don't want to step off the bath mat get water all over the floor, or make your feet all cold, especially in the winter, so you do the little shuffle with the bath mat... crossing the floor to get your towel? This is one of the skits in Ellen DeGeneres' most recent comedy special.  I'm sure most of you know who Ellen DeGeneres is.  Thankfully, as a celebrity, she does like to highlight good things in the world most of the time. But anyway, she had stopped going out on comedy tours around the country for fifteen years  and was thinking about going out back on the road and some of her friends asked her, Do you still think you're relatable?  So much had changed in her world over those years,  and her friends were concerned. Anyway, after being asked a few hundred times,  she decided to call her newest comedy...

I love Christmas movies as much as the next person, though I do like to wait until at least after Thanksgiving to start watching them. And I continue watching them during the whole 12 days of Christmas.  But one unfortunate thing about Christmas movies is that they all end perfectly. The ham is nice and brown (not black or under-cooked) the tree is decorated and pretty  (not an ugly conglomeration  of children's handmade items disguised as ornaments) everyone ends up happy  even with the presents they receive and all is right in the world.  But we all know,  that isn't how real life goes. Many times in our real lives we go from mess to mess and nothing ever comes out looking perfectly there's always at least one gift to be returned, and at the end, not everyone ends up happy, and sometimes by the end, you don't even care if everyone's happy anymore. We live in a messy, messy world. Physical, emotional, spiritu...