Is Christmas down the road and around the back?

Do you have the feeling you’re not really here? It seems you are, but could you be someplace else? You don’t know why, but things just don’t seem to fit together. What is going on? What’s about to happen?

The preparations for Christmas can be tiring and trying. So much to do, and so little time to do it in. The body begins to wear down, the mind starts to fade, and the days run together. What was sensory becomes fleeting. What was fleeting slows to a stop. You wonder if that really is you going from store to store, driving from place to place and smiling from person to person.

Have you lost your mind? Is your heart not in it? Has your soul paused? Is your strength gone? If so, why — to what end and for what purpose?

It may be time for a story to piece it together, to answer what can and needs to be done to help.

The new 2014 Christmas story, “David King,” will be posted on the homepage just after noon tomorrow.

Questions can be healthy, and answers can themselves be actions.

Sometimes, it’s not so much to choose,

As to do.

Grandpa Jim