Bah Humbug - The Sequel

"If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!" - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

 Honestly,  I have been feeling a little Scroogey lately myself. We have been under extreme stress and I do not have much "Christmas Spirit."  I know I have posted, and I heartily stand by, that Jesus Christ is the reason etc.etc.   But my family, especially my younger ones (grandkids included)  need me to be jolly.  So I suck it up, sing some yuletide carols, spread a little cheer, and pray that God can change my attitude enough so that it does not show to them.  Not that God would or should change it.  He did so much by coming here in the first place and really I don't think His birthday is all that important to him.  So all those Christmas miracles that we hear about or legend has generated, if true, are not about the Christmas holiday but about the kindness and generosity of God.  If he chose to bestow those blessings at a certain time of the year, he did so because it pleases him to do so not because the holiday obligates him.

 So I guess I will put on my red furry cap, drink a little eggnog (honey please spike it with the Bacardi), and wiggle my butt to the tunes of Jingle Bell Rock and Rockin Around the Christmas Tree.  Not because I am a great dancer and not because my wiggling butt is pleasant to observe (I have it on good authority that it is not) but because it makes my little ones and even some of my not so little ones giggle and I love them.  So as my father in heaven may choose to bless me with a "Christmas Miracle,"  I can, in some small way, bless them too.

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  1. UnknownDecember 22, 2012 at 6:06 PM

    Thanks for writing - encouraging to me, struggling with scroogeiness...

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