Hi everyone! Well it finally happened. I've dawned my Santa hat. Normally this would have been done weeks ago but well the mode just hadn't moved me. This year seem a little different for some reason, why, I don't know. My grandson is off seeing the other grandparents, one of my daughters is over 17 hours away and can't get here. The other daughters, well one of them may not get here due to the weather and the other daughter well, let's just say that the usual is in play this year. And while this is a time for families to come together and exchange gifts this year has just not got in gear for me yet. That would be fine if Christmas was TOMORROW, aaauugh! I guess I'm more Charlie Brown this year than usual. Maybe I ought to make an appointment with Lucy, I might have Pantophobia but I'm scared to find out. Irregardless, ready or not Santa's coming tonight and my lack of enthusiasm isn't going to stop him. Even the Grinch found out you can't stop Christmas from Coming and he was pretty resourceful. Well maybe I can try to regain a little enthusiasm just as Charlie Brown did when he asked if anyone could tell him what Christmas was all about. Linus gave him the answer by quoting the below listed passage of the Bible.
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| Have you ever wondered why those angels went to shepherds to make this history changing announcement? If you stop to take a look at were the shepherds ranked in the social rankings most individuals agree they would be above or below skunk level depending on who you ask and what direction the wind was blowing. It was because the point that this was a gift to ALL people was being emphasized by giving the news to the lowest of the lows first. I'm personally aware of several people who feel lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut. They feel they have all the value of a crushed ping-pong ball. But when you read this story and realize how lowly the shepherds were only to have been thought enough of that they were chosen to receive the greatest birth announcement ever made, it would suggest that the lack of value is of our own doing. In the Charlie Brown classic Christmas story there is a part were Lucy was handing out the parts of the play they were going to put on. Sherman is given the part of a shepherd to which he replies "Every Christmas it the same! I always end up playing a shepherd." There is no other account of God making that announcement to anyone else! Sounds like honor to me, how about you? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There was a Grinch involved with the very first Christmas. Who? Herod the King tried to ruin Christmas. But like our modern day Grinch, he didn't stop Christmas from coming but he did cause a lot of hurt and pain. The difference was that Herod didn't learn anything and change his ways like our modern day Grinch. That's the whole point of the Grinch, a Charlie Brown Christmas, and a Christmas Carol (Scrooge) is learning the true meaning of Christmas being changed in the process. So, I need to shake off this lack of enthusiasm and get with the program or I just might be visited by those three spirits. No matter how bad things are in our lives we need to remember that we got the greatest gift ever given long before we arrived on this planet. Try to tell God you have not value! As the child said in church once, "God don't make no junk!"
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
Richard
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