Morning Briefing For January 2, 2014 Before I get back to business, I feel compelled to point out that today is the ninth day of Christmas. We all come back to work, groggy and apprehensive, and we forget. We're still in the Christmas season. I won't turn off the Christmas tree lights until bed time on January 5th to get ready for Epiphany. I hope as you get resituated back at your job, you remember what my friend Ben told me recently — Christmas is D-Day. The beaches have been stormed. Now we march on to victory at the cross this Easter. So while I wish you a Happy New Year, really, I'm still wishing people a very Merry Christmas. God bless, Erick