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The Thanksgiving turkey a vivid memory
and still wiping pumpkin pie from the corner of the mouth and its time to
start thinking about Christmas. Well not really. You see those close to me
have already started dropping hints, leaving catalog and flyers open at or
near the place where I sit for dinner or watch the TV. That’s all right.
It’s part of the tradition of the season.
There was a time when the emphasis was on a certain birthday. You know, well
it’s just not politically correct to mention His name. After all. All that
is passé now. Its time to get real and be one with the universe and all that
sort of stuff. We have the government now that is going to take care of us
from the cradle to the grave. What else could we possibly want or need. No
time to pick out individuals for recognition. It was good for a couple
thousand years to honor and recognize that certain individual for whom the
reason for the season is, but lets be real. We have the day off as a
national holiday, we get to participate in all the sales the stores have at
this time of year, There are parades with Santa Clause, there are fir trees
that need to be decorated and mistletoe to hang over the door frame, but
lets not get ridiculous with whom the season was started.
It was all right for Him to come down and be born of woman, live among us
and then give His life so that we could all seek redemption through Him.
That was OK for a while but come on, we are much more grown up about such
things. We now live in the age of the Internet. We can simply Google our way
out of anything. Worried about your soul? No problem just Google it and the
answer will come up with three million different sites. It won’t matter
which religion you pick. After all, aren’t we all going to the same place,
just by different directions. Isn’t it true what they say, "God would never
send any one to hell." That is just a place to tell the kids about to keep
them in line. It’s the same as saying "you better be good or Santa won’t
come." We have so many modern medical miracles that soon we will all be
living to the ripe old age of a hundred. When it comes time to pass from
this existence we will all just "go into the light", as portrayed on one of
the latest television offerings.
There, I’ve said it. I feel so much better now. I feel so much more
enlightened. I now can hardly wait to see what surprises await for me on
December the twenty fifth. In fact, I am not going to buy holiday gifts for
anyone this year. I am sure by this time they are as enlightened as I am and
will just wait to see what Santa has left for them and me under the tree. I
know, I know, if everyone thought this way that all the stores would go out
of business....tisk...tisk.. oh no they won’t. Our government will not let
them fail. They will simply pass a couple of trillion dollar stimulus bills
and give them the money to stay afloat and the best part is the government
will own those retail outlets and we will be able to buy everything at
government discount.
I know that some of you are going to disagree with me on a lot of things I
have said in this article. Some of you would even try to find out where the
nearest facility is whereby I might receive some strong electrical shock
treatments or if all else fails a frontal lobotomy. I might even agree with
you if it weren’t for the fact that the government has been trying to sell
this same thing to us for quite some time and not only have you agreed with
them by sending them back into office, but you have elected more just like
them.
I hope that none of you have taken this too seriously and will be taking the
season serious for what it represents. I look at my own life and know for
certain that if He hadn’t come to this world, mine would be one crazy
up-heavaled one. That is for sure. So even though it is not politically
correct I do wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year.
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good
tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born
this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2: 10-11 |
