At last, the Christmas season is tumbling to an end. Already, Wal-Mart and Target have begun carting out obscene amounts of candy with pink wrappers in preparation for Valentine's Day. Hendog said it best: America is not a democratic society; it is a capitalist society. Long gone are the days when our sacred past-times slowly creep up on the calendar, only to suddenly arrive with little warning and rabid fanfare. Now, America prepares to celebrate holidays months ahead of time by offering useless riff-raff for which the public has embraced as "tradition" and so pressures its citizens to "need". Things like mass-produced candy in lieu of home cooked treats, video games that promote vandalism and violence instead of a joy ride with the family to the city.
Despite all that, the shameless profitism of days where loving one another has been replaced with the subtle giving (as in buying) for others, in spite of that... now that the day itself is finally here, I could not be happier with the friends and family that God has blessed me with.
My friend T used to say, "Only on Earth," when strange truths were revealed. He has a point. Thank God for free will, the ability to screw every imaginable thing up and still be blessed with the support of loved ones. No one is beyond salvation, holy, literal, or imagined. Not a one.
God bless all of you.
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Well said. Merry Christmas :)
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