I'm thrilled when anyone wishes me well -- whether they say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Groovy Solstice, Blessed Kwanzza, Happy Holidays, or anything else.
Sure, I'd like to put the Christ back in Christmas, but that would mean burning down Target and Wal-Mart and who has time for prison?! ;)
More importantly, it's not about words but actions -- want Christ in Christmas? Don't bother suing the ACLU, instead take some food to the Food Bank, find your best hairnet serve some food in a soup kitchen, be an angel tree adopter, let some random stranger have the highly coveted close the entrance parking place at the mall, give a decent gift to your cousin who you really don't like, smile at people, etc. That puts the Christ back in Christmas just fine.
And it also staves off the official Holiday Depression.
Expectations are so high for Christmas and New Year's that no one, no family, no situation lives up. Suddenly its "well, normal people would thus and so but our family does that and thus." Holy Mistletoe , Batman -- where are these "normal people" everyone keeps talking about, longing to be with?
So let's go live our odd little lives as best we can and try to figure out a way to help somebody. That whole "better to give than to receive thing" has some merit. Read the nativity story and then the beatitudes together as companion pieces. It's pretty good stuff.
Happy, Merry!!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
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