I got there first

I’ve been toying for weeks with my Christmas Eve sermon, based on the notion that Christmas and weddings in our culture have come to resemble one another way too much. It seemed like an original thought.

Yesterday, I picked the local paper and found, on the weather page no less, Paul Douglas printing the same idea. Argh! One can’t exactly begin a Christmas Eve sermon with a disclaimer – “I thought of it before Paul Douglas, and no, I didn’t just start my sermon on Friday.” So I guess I’ll just have to take my chances and hope that most people don’t read his daily paragraph as religiously as I do. I’m not about to start over.