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Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

I, on Cyber Monday, saw a sweater on sale.

And I just thought, hey, that would be the perfect sweater to wear Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve service.

It was a Christmas sweater, right?

And so this is a one time of year, you know, it's going to go, it's going to come out, it's going to go get put away and maybe wear it next Christmas. But I just thought, that's the perfect sweater. It was kind of a double XLT, which is hard to find, but a tall sweater. And I was like, I'm getting it. I'm going for it. And I got it. It was on sale.

And it came, like, it gave me the delivery date. And it was a range. It was a big range that stretched beyond Christmas. And I thought, oh, no. You know, when's it? And so now I feel like I'm gambling a little bit. You know, I don't know when it's going to, maybe it's for next Christmas, the sweater I got.

And so every day I'd I'm gambling a little bit. You know, I don't know when it's going to, maybe it's for next Christmas, the sweater I got.

And so every day I'd come home and I would look out the front door to see if my sweater had arrived. I'm kind of watching for it. And this is the time of year that packages show up. There's a lot of online Christmas shopping that is done. And so every day, there's usually an Amazon package or something out there that is somebody's Christmas gift or whatnot.

And so I would go out there and I would, you know, lots of false hope, you know, is that it?

And this wasn't Amazon, it wasn't Prime.

It was something very different than Prime.

It was coming from overseas.

I should have known better,

but it was like, where is my sweater? And last week, it arrived. And such a joyous occasion.

And, you know, I was like, this is awesome. My sweater's here. I'm going to wear it. It got here just in time. I'll wear it.

Harris Creek Christmas Eve service. The next day, my daughter in high school, 16-year-old,

says, Dad, I need a Christmas sweater for school tomorrow. Do you have one? To which I say,

my sweater's not going to fit you. You know,

you can't wear one of my sweaters. In the back of my mind, I'm thinking, I do have one. It's new.

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