It is Christmas Eve and there are so few cars in my neighborhood it feels like there’s a plague. Surely everyone has purchased any gifts they are going to give, so the stores are closing one by one as if blowing out candles on a Menorah. Me? I’m about to go to church and finish getting ready for the community to gather.

“Denim Spirit” is not a religious column, but it does have subliminal spirituality woven into it from week to week. You may think that the title refers to casual clothing, but what I intended when I named it was a reference to the sacred hiding in plain sight — as in the presence of the holy in everyday, ordinary events that we miss unless we are looking for it.

While Christmas Eve is still one of the biggie events on the church calendar, fewer folks will be attending than just a decade ago. All over the nation........

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