Merry Christmas everyone! I love the fact that we keep saying Merry Christmas well into January! Yes, it’s true that H-E-B has its Valentine’s Day stuff already, but we celebrate the full twelve days of Christmas! Today is the second Sunday of Christmas, and the eleventh day of Christmas.(That’s eleven pipers piping, in case you were wondering). There are two options for a Second Sunday after Christmas Gospel lesson: there is the great story of Jesus as a 12 year old, who gets left behind in Jerusalem. His parents frantically return to the huge city in a state of panic and don’t find the tween until after three days. And when they find him, he is, oblivious to their distress, discussing, debating, and even teaching in the Great Temple among the adults. That’s Luke story though, and since it is Lectionary Year A, the year we hear mostly from Matthew, it makes sense to choose the other option that comes from Matthew’s Gospel. As I said in my Trini...