Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
One of the most important rules for living in the world is: You are probably not who you think you are, and many others know you better than you know yourself.
When my sisters and I were young, my mother would spend all of Advent baking cookies and making candy. That may hardly seem remarkable; after all, countless millions of Christmas cookies are baked and consumed every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. But my mother didn’t eat any of the cookies she baked, and neither did we – not before Christmas, that is.