Dear Friends, As I write this, there is just one more week left in 2016. I know that almost every year it seems that the year passes by much too quickly. However, this year it really went by fast, including the Advent and Christmas season. Christmas always seems to bring out the best in people, doesn’t it? The joy, the music, the generosity: but why does all that have to be limited to one season of the year?! In the comic strip “Peanuts,” Charlie Brown says: “Why can’t we kee