This will be my last post I intend to have up until after the Christmas weekend. For a little peak behind the curtain, I’m writing this before the weekend prior to this post will be published. I’m not actually going to work on Christmas.
Since my own family is going to be travelling on the eve of Christmas Eve, and away from our home until after the following weekend, we are opening our presents as you read this post. My boys are going to wake up to discover age appropriately sized baseball gloves and a rubber ball. They will unwrap various gifts that we will try to keep them from breaking the same day. I’ll probably eat too much and stay tired all day.
Merry early Christmas to you as well!
As if governments haven’t destroyed enough, they are still using COVID as an excuse to make travel difficult. We have been tested, again, and resulted negative, simply to engage in travel. I’m not too angry about the random tests, but since I know they often cycle them too high, it is just a matter of time before we test positive even if we don’t have the virus. The results of that are mildly more irritating with trace contacts and forced quarantines and isolations from my place of employment.
Family means a lot to me, though, so we will suck it up again so we can go visit other people.
Tomorrow, we will wake in the wee dark hours of the morning and start our long travels to go stay with and enjoy the holidays with family.
Christmas is really a prominent holiday for what it represents. No matter its history, and whether it coincides with the birth of Jesus Christ or not, it is symbolic for that birth and what it represented for mankind. Theologically, it was the moment that God took on flesh and entered our world. He united with His Creation in life, so that He could purchase our eternal life through His eventual death.
It is about unity. It is about love. It is about an ultimate gift and giving of oneself for others.
Christmas is about what our world is at its best.
I’ll leave you there, to keep it short. No links or pitches today.
Enjoy your holiday season and don’t forget to read what is coming next Monday!
