Christmas is the season of good will and peace for all. We celebrate the birth of Jesus and remember that little holy family with all its triumphant joy and distressing challenges. It is a time filled with great music and with silly romantic Christmas movies. There are culinary treats: rich desserts, crisp cookies and wonderful entrees. Even the side dishes are especially ampted-up creations. There are decorations and tinsel. There are TV specials with glittering performers. It is the season of meaningful, beautiful Christmas worship drawing on our memories and making new ones to add to our collective memory. There are family moments of real importance. We celebrate it all. It is unfortunately also the season of catalogues. Every day in the mail during this season we find our mail box stuffed with catalogues offering nearly everything one could imagine.New gadgets, unimagined by most of us are available both cheap and expensive.Exotic cheeses, teas, candies, coffees are on offer.You can find Danish Kringle, Syrian spices, nuts of all types and flavors.There are aged steaks, smoked salmon, kippers and pickled herring.Every tool for every hobby or project can be ordered.Garden seeds and supplies are available and if you buy just a bit more than then shopping is included.I admit that I enjoy the first few catalogues, but after a while there is just too much.I begin to pity themail man lugging all this stuff around.Sure it was a blessing for many of us to order online during the COVID pandemic since we are so far away from family, but I am ready to be back in the stores looking for Christmas bargains.As I think about all this, I remember that in the early years on the prairie most of what people could buy would have to be ordered from a Sears, Wards, or Penny’s catalogue.May be we are moving back in the direction of that earlier time. Amidst all the changing world, Let us celebrate.After all it is Christmas!