White Candles

Our church lights an Advent wreath at Christmas. This requires four candles - commonly 3 purple and one pink or 4 purple. Except in our church they like 4 royal blue. So last year just before the Sunday I was asked if I could secure 4 royal blue. I started in the local religious supply store, then another, then another....as they helpfully pointed out if I ordered these ahead of time they would have them in stock. Then I went to Michael's and Zeller's and WalMart. Finally secured what we needed in Hamilton - except they weren't royal blue but "Mary" blue.

So this year I'm all set and even better we decide on 3 purple and 1 pink which is very easy to track down.

Did I mention the white candle that sits in the middle of the wreath? This is the Christ candle and thus very important.

How hard do you think it is to find a 3 by 8 white candle? Apparently more difficult then you would imagine! WalMart sells them, they just don't have any left. Suspiciously very few white candles anywhere close to that size are still on the shelf. I can only imagine that other people like me are looking for them. I wonder if WalMart has ever figured out why there is a run on white candles at the end of November?

That's okay, the lady next to me was looking for either 2 Christmas red or Christmas green candles to match her poinsetta napkins. After pulling tons of loose merchandise off the bottom shelf she finally found two red. You wouldn't think red and green tapers would have sold out yet!

This is what I have found with WalMart - you go there and find lots of things to buy but you can't go there to buy certain things. For instance, they do not see nice Christmas paper. I assume they have given up because you can go to the dollar store. But I want nice paper for a few special gifts. No deal.

I would love to stop shopping there but they have really cheap dispensing on their meds. So I get sucked into going for that and then looking around for 20 minutes while the fill the script.

I'm a sucker!

Do you see what I DON'T See?

Look closely at this log - do you the manger scene? C'mon, look again - don't you see Mary and some animals?

Here is a quote from the people who have listed it on ebay

"IT IS NOT A FAKE.(because it contains all of the images in the coming of baby jesus, many have accused us of altering or manufacturing this image.) It can be verified by any method that you so choose...it is quite real. We did nothing to it except take the photos."

Yeah, actually, I don't think its fake.

I'm sorta back...maybe

I haven't blogged in ages. Mostly because I hit a time where I just didn't want to talk about anything. Then I hit a very long time period where I am so tired of being scrutinized and dissected that I just couldn't stand the thought of sharing anything about me with anyone. Between the spiritual director, mentor, classmates (who are really, really getting on my nerves) and support group at church I'm sick of talking about me! So I might post a few fun things - I hope my friends find them fun at least. Like this interesting item that you see. I mean what do I say - I believe that Christ cares about us continually but this is just too much. And 20 bucks. Its really something.