Christmas was once upon a December the one time of year when differences were put aside.
People took a moment to see the world through the eyes of compassion rather than through the glare of competition.
Communities and churches strived for inclusiveness rather than wave the flag of exclusion.
Meals of celebration were open to all rather than limited to those who shared genetic markers.
Some may laugh, claiming that world never existed, that Christmas is just another corporate holiday where cash is sacrificed at the altar of commerce.
A holiday adopted by the early church for simpler conversion of the pagans to the new faith.
A holiday adopted by Charles Dickens in order to cast a light on those less fortunate.
A holiday adopted by Coca Cola turning Santa Claus into just another corporate icon.
The cynical amongst us are correct in stating that the Christmas we romanticize never truly existed. In doing so they are missing the point.
It is not so much the celebration that is being romanticized but the ideals that were celebrated.
Let the cynical amongst us joust with the windmills of angst.
While the rest of us strive to manifest the ideals of yore.
4 weeks ago
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