Pink Sunday?

So I’m wondering whether or not there is more than one Advent wreath tradition. I went to the local Anglican church today, and they lit the fourth candle, which was the pink one. Apparently it’s the ‘candle of love.’ I didn’t know there was a candle of love aside from the Bethlehem candle (the second one). Also, I didn’t know that ‘pink Sunday’ was, like, moveable. I knew it was optional, but not that it could be relocated from the third Sunday to the fourth. They also lit the white candle in the centre of the wreath.

I am so confused.

On the other hand, their children’s Christmas pageant was very cute. I’ve never seen a pageant that wasn’t on Christmas Eve, so I found it rather odd, but I’m going to just assume that this is an acceptable variation…sure, why not? I guess that’s why the white candle was also lit: Jesus is born!!

That is just so not right…

I keep feeling like I’m living in some horrible dream; not a nightmare, just a kind of stepping through the looking glass, a kind of disconnection of an image between one mirror and the next, something misaligned, distorted or missing. It’s not a nightmare, but a world I’ve fallen into in which I don’t exactly belong. Like a life lived sideways.