Merry Christmas! Yes I said it! I am proud to know that there is a holiday which reminds us to be merry! A day - once a year - that calls out to all of us to see the world through the eyes of a child - a baby...
This idea of sanitizing all things with political correctness, as if not to offend anyone, has to go! Away with the notion that the ideas embedded in the three magi bearing gifts or the angels singing "Peace on earth..." to the shepherds as they watched their flocks of sheep at night - is somehow not universal hopes and the dreams of all people! Yes! Christmas... The day we celebrate God coming to earth - not as a despot king - but as a babe. The Ruler of the Universe just as vulnerable as you and me... Watched over by sheep and cows and a donkey.
It's time we all took off the religious blinders and realized that we - as people - must embrace each other and learn to forgive and give love and compassion, as the gifts of the season! It is only then that we find ourselves on equal footing with the richest man and the poorest of the poor! Money is not the object... Our shared humanity is the one thing which we have in common. The one thing we share - even with God - The Creator of the Universe. The baby surrounded by sheep, cows and... a donkey! Let the Angels sing - "Hallelujah
