Tag: tis the season

It was a fun time with the family. Eating food. Chatting with relatives. Drinking in the fun. The giving and receiving of gifts is the highlight of the night. You need a Santa Claus to do the duties or else it will be madness. When you hand out the gifts, a Santa will make it more organized.

Santa will give out the presents. The recipient will jump with joy. Then file back up later for more presents.

Either that or just hand the presents out. The recipient and the parents will lose track of the presents. Who got what? Who gave what? Where is it?

You really need a Santa Claus to handle it all.

We wake up to find that it is Christmas day! Huzzah!

The Christmas goose is cooked and waiting for us.

Family and friends too. Waiting to share in the holiday warmth.

Good cheer for all men. Good thoughts for all. Peace.

Sometimes I wish for three ghosts to visit me and remind me of what Christmas is all about. Either that or to have a thumbsucking optimist telling me of the first Christmas.

Where has my Christmas spirit gone?

It most likely disappeared when I basically stopped going to church. It’s not that I despise religion. It’s that I despise organized religion. On one hand the Church professes to be God’s representative on earth and on the other hand they have many despicable men in their employ. If God is infallible, why do we have to listen to men that can get it wrong?

Religion also gets my goat. It is used as a cudgel to hammer prejudice home into people’s minds.

Christmas? Bah humbug.

Yet, the idea of Jesus Christ is interesting and makes one happy. I can dig that guy and his hippy ideas. Why did religion mess up his message? Isn’t it enough that they’re living off his fame? Can’t the religious do anything right?

So, I’ll just continue on and try to make things seem like Christmas. I’ll read Dickens. I’ll watch the ol’ blockhead. I’ll try to catch the Christmas cheer.