So, we got sick and basically missed Christmas.

My better half and I have a head cold sinus thing going on that has consumed more tissue than you really want to see, so we have isolated ourselves to keep from spreading this to and fro along the I 75 corridor in two states and among those we love the most… our family.

Right up front I’ll just say that I have been dreading this entire holiday season. I won’t go into the reasons why again, but I was just starting to buy into this Christmas is for children thing. My family is coming to the end of a very emotionally hard year and while going through the motions like a champ, I just wanted it over. Little by little we let the spirit of the season in and here I sit, looking to the east, and once again I am coming to terms with the reason for all this. The reason is me. The reason is you. We live in very cynical times, but not unique times. Our Creator sent His Son to earth. This journey was for us, a perfect sacrifice was required, and a perfect sacrifice was provided. He walked among us, but just like now, they rejected Him then. And just like then, even now, all that will receive Him can be saved.

Christmas is truly for children, and that is exactly what we all are.

May my heart never get so hard that I cannot say Merry Christmas, and feel it in my soul.

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