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When I started this blog I said that I wasn't going to write columns about Georgia football.  I know maybe claiming a technicality but in the end this column isn't about Georgia football, but I'm going to use it as a starting point. Unless one has been living in a cave in Siberia the last week one is aware the Georgia football team lost to LSU 37-10 in the SEC Championship game last Saturday evening.  It was a rough night for the Dawgs to be sure.  However, to hear some Georgia fans the last few days one would think that the University of Georgia football program is in total shambles. Some folks are screaming for people to be fired.  Others are acting like the season was a total failure. It is, to say the least, a complete over reaction.   What these over reactors are missing is perspective.  After all, Saturday's loss was in a championship game.  There were twelve other teams in our conference that would have loved to have had the opportunity Georgia had

We United Methodists are a part of a liturgical church, meaning that we have a church calendar that moves us through the various seasons of the year.  These seasons often dictate the themes and content of our worship.  We share this calendar with our Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Presbyterian friends.  Other denominations besides these may also follow this calendar. In the liturgical calendar most of the seasons that are celebrated are connected to events in the life of Jesus.  Christmas, which celebrates Jesus' birth, and Easter, which celebrates Jesus' resurrection are examples of this. Though the retail and consumer culture tells us that it is Christmas time, the liturgical calendar tells that it is not yet Christmas but rather Advent.  Advent consists of the four Sundays prior to Christmas. Most churches have an Advent wreath with five candles and each week a candle is lit on the wreath as the church moves closer to the celebration of Christmas. On Chris