First, for some...even perhaps many...amidst the carols, the presents, the numerous gatherings one has in the celebration of this season...there are those who suffer from what is referred to as: " The Blues Christmas".
I think this...kind of little poetic story by Jean Baudrillad... sums up what we might need to be sensitive to...because there is still time...to reach out....
"The Christmas Syndrome"
" A woman spent all of Christmas Day
In a telephone box...without ringing anyone.
If someone happened to need use of the public telephone,
She would leave the box, only to return to the box afterward.
No one calls her, yet...from a window in the street,
Someone has been watching her...all day.
The reason being...there was no doubt,
The person in the window...
had nothing better...to do."
And, we can learn much from the simple things we do...like the lighting of candles in this festive season.....
"The Lesson of the Christmas Candle"
" A Christmas Candle...is a lovely thing,
While quite unselfish...it grows small,
Yet gives to others a lit path...that they might see Him."
Christmas...as "Bob Cratchett" spoke after receiving the prized turkey from the poultry man, not knowing who had purchased the turkey for him and his family...in Dicken's "A Christmas Carol", said to his wife and family..."God Bless it..."
May God always bless...Christmas!
May God bless you...this very Christmas!
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