'Tis the season to be jolly!  So, did you wake up this morning
to a gift of four colly birds from your true love? Probably not,
but if you did, my advice is to liberate them if they're still
alive. If the birds are at room temperature, try to discreetly
dispose of the evidence. The possession of colly birds is
illegal.  And you thought Christmas was over four days ago. The
fact is, today you're only a third of the way through the
Christian season of Christmastide. That's why the carol exhorts
you to deck your halls with boughs of holly to commemorate a
jolly season. Christian Christmas starts of Dec. 25 and
concludes on Twelfth Night, the evening of Jan. 5.  Christian
Christmas? Well, we now have two Christmases. Christian
Christmas is a sacred celebration of the mystery that the One,
Creator God of the universes became human in the baby in
Bethlehem. Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians all
refer to that Nativity mystery as the doctrine of the
Incarnation, God became flesh. For Christians the Incarn