The Reedsburg Area Helping Hands 2025 Christmas Program has been completed, with distribution to families taking place last week. This year 449 children and 186 families benefited from this program.
I ran into a woman I sort of know at the post office not long ago. (I run into people I know people I know at the post office every time I get the mail – you do, too. It happens all the time in our neck of the woods and it’s the best part of picking up mail at the post office.)
Our planet is infested with parasites. Parasites live off their hosts, weakening and sometimes killing them. Parasites don't want to kill their hosts, because they are dependent on those hosts. Pet owners are familiar with the ticks and fleas and worms that live off their animals.
Stores were packed this past weekend, perhaps in anticipation of the nasty weather that was forecast for this week and weekend. It’s also possible people just didn’t want to wait until the last minute and then have to rush for gifts and ingredients.
Whose God do you look to when you seek to justify starvation and mass slaughter?
Watching Gaza’s devastation, many have appealed to religion or history to rationalize what cannot be defended. Some cite ancient suffering to excuse new atrocities, as if pain sanctifies more pain.
“Tis the season and the man who claims to have been “saved by god” is celebrating the birth of Christ with messages of hatred, vengeance and the threat of literal hellfire.
