Tipper from Blind Pig and the Acorn has greatly enhanced my twelve days of Christmas with the idea of “Breaking Up Christmas.”
I found a lovely YouTube clip of a song with the name of the tradition she spoke of.
I love the idea of singing and dancing my way to the end of the season.
A bit more about the third day of Christmas. While out pruning today, I began to wonder about the three french hens. (All pretty simple stuff really, pruning in the cold rain took some energy of its own.) I was using my orchard ladder which of course is a three legged ladder, two hold the steps up and the other is the brace. The beauty of using a three legged ladder is the same as any other tripod, because it is three points it will always be steady, as three points can always find a common plane. Always stable no matter what.
But Dear Reader, you know what I realized? That the Triune God was the first tripod, the original tripod. When we use the Trinity as our ladder no matter how uneven the ground we will always find a common plane on which to stand steady.
I thought of many of the threes in the spiritual life. Many “three french hens,” the first of which is the Father, Son and Holy Ghost!
