This time of year is so busy. We have gifts to buy and wrap -let’s not forget wrapping the presents, cookies to bake, a tree to decorate, and parties to plan and about a gazillion other things to get done along with the “normal” routine things. It’s enough to drive a person up a wall. It seems as though even if there were a million hours a day we could not get everything done. We hurry from one thing to the next, and truly enjoy none of it. I want to offer you a gift, the gift of a slower pace. Especially at Christmas, it’s incredibly easy to get side-tracked. We get in such haste to accomplish everything on a “to do” list a mile long that we lose sight of Christmas and maybe some unexpected blessings because we let ourselves get too busy to notice. We are so busy that we can’t or won’t adjust our schedule to accommodate what might be a blessing. Thinking back to that very first Christmas, the shepherds, the lowly shepherds, were given the privilege of seeing this miracl