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Eva’s Byte #295 – The Glitter of Christmas
“Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” (The Grinch from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss – 1957)
Operative word—perhaps!
The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered 2020 a vile year, serving us a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce on a silver platter. Limiting this year’s in-person holiday gatherings to only people in your own household is like not touching them with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole.
At least technological advances enable us to keep in virtual touch.
Boo-hooing aside, “perhaps” previous Christmases got away from us, its true meaning suffocated under all the glitter of commercialism. The hustle and bustle of jostling crowds in search of perfect gifts creates a distraction from the reason for the holiday season.
As Charles Dicken’s Ghost of Marley in A Christmas Carol said, “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business…”
If anything, the pandemic has emphasized the true meaning of Christmas—that of giving up one’s self to think of others in various states of financial or psychological need.
Disappointed as we might feel about our socially-distant holiday gatherings this year, kindness is the glitter which fortifies the glory of Christmas.
Merry Christmas! May peace and goodwill prevail.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
Operative word—perhaps!
The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered 2020 a vile year, serving us a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce on a silver platter. Limiting this year’s in-person holiday gatherings to only people in your own household is like not touching them with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole.
At least technological advances enable us to keep in virtual touch.
Boo-hooing aside, “perhaps” previous Christmases got away from us, its true meaning suffocated under all the glitter of commercialism. The hustle and bustle of jostling crowds in search of perfect gifts creates a distraction from the reason for the holiday season.
As Charles Dicken’s Ghost of Marley in A Christmas Carol said, “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business…”
If anything, the pandemic has emphasized the true meaning of Christmas—that of giving up one’s self to think of others in various states of financial or psychological need.
Disappointed as we might feel about our socially-distant holiday gatherings this year, kindness is the glitter which fortifies the glory of Christmas.
Merry Christmas! May peace and goodwill prevail.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
