Last weekend I was invited to play shepherd # 3 in our church Christmas musical and I’d like to introduce you to a new segment entitled ‘Reflections from Shepherd # 3.”  The performance received some good reviews. It was pretty awesome. I didn’t have a staff at first to carry and I immediately rectified that situation by finding a stick that was quite a bit shorter than the other two shepherds and was partially broken. It was no surprise that it snapped further while I was sitting on the stage. I put part of my broken staff in one of the decoration plants in the lobby because I was focussing on my next scene. Me and Shepherd # 2 were making bets on how long that would stay there for. It’s probably still there. I’ll check tomorrow.

A few people were quoted after saying “Way to go, you didn’t mess any of your lines up.” and “I thought you had lines” and yet another person said “good job sitting.”  I kept saying “I felt good about that one” and “Photos in the lobby with Shepherd # 3″ I can’t quite remember what Ashlee-Heather said after but I’m sure she was speechless from the performance. I was trying to get an interpretive dance  written in but it wasn’t quite fitting into the musical. Next year hopefully. One of the highlights for me was seeing a couple youth in the hallway while I was waiting for my big scene and chasing after them saying “is that a stray sheep!” I like to stay in character. I remember asking one of them if I could put him over my shoulders for the next scene and he be a sheep.

The other day I texted the pastor in charge of the musical during our staff meeting and said “Hey, it’s Shepherd # 3″ He was sitting across the table from me leading the meeting. He looked at his phone with a confused look and said “What?”  Gotta keep ‘em guessing.

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In other news, Ashlee-Heather and I watched ‘Home Alone’ the other day on T.V. I think Home Alone is probably my fav Christmas movie. I used to like the Santa Clause featuring Tim the toolman taylor. Ashlee-Heather and I text lines to each other from Home Alone. That’s how we roll.

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And finally, Christmas season has returned. I’d like to leave you with a piece of advice about Christmas shopping that one of my friends told me when we were shopping one time for church. “Shopping is crazy during Christmas..get your elbows up!” Good night Canada, America I’ll be seeing you soon.