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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Saturday night LeAnn and I enjoyed one of our newest Christmas traditions: Going to the annual Twinkle Tour at Lake Tawakoni State Park. We’ve grown fond of experiencing the lights in the darkness.

In case you don’t know, many of Texas’ state parks invite overnight campers to decorate their campsites, and then on selected nights the public can drive through and view the decorations. Lake Tawakoni State Park is just an hour away, so we decided to check it out three years ago and we keep going back, which in my mind makes it a “tradition.”

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Okay, here it is, my biggest hang-up about Christmas: Hanging Christmas lights on the house and ornaments from the tree challenges my desire for perfection. I want to get the lights lined up and spaced just right, the ornaments placed just so. And knowing that perfection is impossible puts my spirit in a holiday tussle. I also tend to want the traditions of Christmas — the family gatherings and worship services — to be just right, as if they ever were.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

I went out at noon Wednesday to hang Christmas lights on the house and had to face one of my biggest fears. Not heights, not electricity. No, it was yellowjackets.

I waited until noon to catch the warmest part of the day, and when I clanked my aluminum extension ladder against the gutter at my usual starting point on the corner, I suddenly saw yellowjackets buzzing around the top of the ladder and wall and then me. I scooted away, my arms flailing to keep them off me, and then for the next half hour, I banged around the house with a broom trying to find out where the yellowjackets were coming from, but I couldn’t find a source.

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