Bottom line: Christmas is truly about understanding the meaning of the Christ Child, about showing how much we love and appreciate those in our lives and about making children smile. But that does not mean that Christmas can’t be about:
--keeping the retail industry in the black
--creating Simpsons themed Nativity scenes
--building live Nativity scenes with escaping cows
--stealing gifts rather than giving them
--torturing ourselves with endless Christmas muzak
--cutting down and stealing Christmas trees from college campuses
--returning the gifts so lovingly and thoughtfully given
--populating our lawns with all kinds of inflatable creatures.
In the end, though, it’s all okay because we are human beings: loving, greedy, spirit-filled, comical, thoughtful, thoughtless, bumbling, sentimental, generous, needy, compassionate.
--keeping the retail industry in the black
--creating Simpsons themed Nativity scenes
--building live Nativity scenes with escaping cows
--stealing gifts rather than giving them
--torturing ourselves with endless Christmas muzak
--cutting down and stealing Christmas trees from college campuses
--returning the gifts so lovingly and thoughtfully given
--populating our lawns with all kinds of inflatable creatures.
In the end, though, it’s all okay because we are human beings: loving, greedy, spirit-filled, comical, thoughtful, thoughtless, bumbling, sentimental, generous, needy, compassionate.
Have a Blessed Christmas.
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