I MISS CHRISTMAS

"We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
We tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how."

- Dan Fogelberg 

When we were innocent, Christmas seemed innocent, didn't it?

I remember sprinkling "reindeer food" 
over the grass in the back yard.

I remember leaving milk and cookies 
out for Santa.

I remember leaving a note for Santa 
to give my toys to a boy
who needed them more.

"What if Christmas," he thought,"doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
 - Dr. Seuss

We let our rationality leech the wonder and mystery out of our lives like calcium from bone and question why we break.

Do you understand how electricity works?  
No? 

But that does not stop you from flipping 
on the light switch.

Do you know how a touch screen works?  
No? 

But you still use it to search the internet.

Just because you don't understand
why God would choose to
visit us as a babe
doesn't stop it from being true.
 

Perhaps only the childlike "get" God.

Let the joy of children you see 
spark the memory 
of your own childhood 
during Christmas.

Our favorite Christmas carols
can bring to mind and heart more 
trusting, innocent times.

We live in a world of mystery 
despite the musings 

of pundits 
who blather they know it all.

Look up into the night sky 
with its myriad wonders

and be a child again.

Look at a drop of water 
under a microscope with its

tiny worlds within worlds. 

All this costs nothing

but

is worth more than gold.

TRY IT.

KEEP THE 
MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS

AND PERHAPS

IT WILL KEEP YOU