Delivered Woodside Priory School, January 2020

Epiphany

I had the most beautiful thing happen yesterday. I decided before I left campus that I’d stop into the chapel and meditate. As I reached for the door, do you know what I smelled? I smelled Christmas trees. It was amazing. I couldn’t really believe it, I sniffed again, yep, then I went in. And the smell was inside, too, spruce or pine or whatever it is that makes that magical scent. And you know what I thought? First I thought wow. Then, I sat down in the eighth grade section back there and I thought: Christmas is a story that doesn’t end.

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Oil Painting, Courtesy of Jane Tracy