I’ve just completed an odious chore – decorating the house for Christmas. Jesus is responsible for Christmas, but Satan is in all the nonreligious, secular details that take Christ out of Christmas and the joy out of the season. Only two Evangelists, Matthew & Luke, even mention Christ’s birth, so why have we “Christians” turned it into a three-ring circus that mocks the true meaning of Christ’s message? Christmas, in this country, is synonymous with greed, angst and ill-will. Spend, spend, spend! Eat, eat, eat! Rush, rush, rush! Well, for many years, I opted completely out of the season in my own way. But this “solution” hurt the ones I loved the most. I’ve changed, sort of, and now tolerate, if not embrace, Christmas. I’ll never be a “Bob Cratchit,” but I’m moving away from “Scrooge.”
Some people, after reading “Explaining Scrooge,” e-mailed me and said my essay was a complete fabrication. Well, the proof is in this picture! And, if you read “Explaining Scrooge,” please forgive my big-word binge!
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Jersey Joe, October 14, 2011 - 02:49 PM
You want to talk about Christmas depression, one year we show up at my Moms after my Dad had passed away to find my Sister and Sister in law preparing to serve Christmas dinner on paper plates.
To get out the real dishes I had to do them after dinner.
My train layouts for the kids is pre technical, only the trains light up or move. I run them in a L shape on two 4/8 sheets. If I can swing it this year they will be on three 4/8's in a U shape.
I agree with your thoughts about satan has taken a good portion of the event.
I think it the right time of the year to gear up the right to life explanation.
As a kid my Grandpap every now and then would ask me what I wanted to do and I would say, lets take a ride and look at the fires.
The fires were to fire seen out of the steel mills or coke plants and that is not a cue for MM and CEEJAI down beaver valley.
I guess to give my parents a break him and I would take an evening ride down your way to see the fires.
thescarletpumpernickel, October 14, 2011 - 04:38 PM
Just read your article in the P-G. Wow. Very courageous of you to seek help, and moreover, publicly describe your struggles in hopes of reaching others similarly afflicted.
Trust me, brother, I know.
