I love Christmas, I always have. There is something about this season, no matter how old you get, you can feel like a kid again! There's something about the thought of waking up on December 25th, coming downstairs and seeing those gifts underneath the tree! SANTA CAME! Don't tell me you don't get butterflies remembering that feeling.
This year is different for some reason. Well, I can tell you why. There's no snow on the ground. People are being less than in the Christmas mood. They've been selfish, grumpy, uncaring, and there's SO much hate in the world right now. With the economy, we have no presents under the tree. I don't want anything, I want to be able to give them! I want to see the look on people's faces when they open the "perfect" gift!
Well, no money, no snow, no humanity towards others, the lights don't twinkle as much, all I have to say is merry freakin' Christmas to the world!
Driving to work today, looking at the bleak, brown world around me, day dreaming of a white Christmas, I remembered another reason I love Christmas. I love the idea of the Christmas miracle. Ya know, you turn on the Hallmark channel this time of year and the movies are full of them!! But then you realize, a miracle doesn't have to be the parting of a sea, it can be so much as getting a check from the government when you REALLY needed that extra lift (yeah, it happened!) It's meeting a friend of a friend who, you know, somehow, is going to help you make your goals come true (yeah, happened again!) Or, it's going to a dear friend's home for a party and having a person who means the WORLD, and beyond to you, walk in the front door. (Again, totally happened!)
Christmas miracles are the things we miss when we're yelling at the people at the mall 'cus they're going slow. We miss them when we're so consumed in our own lives, we forget that a hug in itself is a miraculous thing. Making someone smile, out of the time and effort you put into something, THAT is what Christmas is. It's the everyday things, that, for some reason, we skip over day in and day out. I guess you could say, life is the gift that keeps on giving.
Christmas miracles do happen. Not just on the Hallmark channel, but every time someone opens their hearts to fellow human beings. Love, in itself, is a Christmas miracle. As much as I hate "Jesus is the reason for the season" slogan, I do believe, that the point of CHRISTmas, is to renew our faith in what God wants from us. We can be someone else's Christmas miracle,
And besides, you never know, I could still get my white Christmas, I'm not giving up on mother nature quite yet.
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