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Celebrating the sixth day of Christmas: The murky middle

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30 Dec 2018
A picturesque church in the snow with trees in the background. Watercolor.
Churches are picturesque, but they can be “middling” places as well! Love this painting by Leo Boucher. Used with permission; all rights reserved.

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…

Can you remember? Six maids a milking? Geese a laying? An online search says I got it right with the second guess.

My memory for that popular song is murky, just as this point in the Christmas season can feel murky. Many people have taken down their Christmas trees and decorations, ready to move into 2019 with a new purpose. It feels countercultural to keep banging on about the days of Christmas, especially in this messy middle (see the wonderful blog by Amy Young by this name), when the wonder of the first days of Christmas seem long past and the end feels a long way off.

How can you make the sixth day of Christmas feel special?

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