It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
Yes, I have started my annual holiday madness of stringing thousands of lights on everything that is not moving in and around our house. The wonderful, desperately needed, but incessant rain over the past two days thwarted my outside efforts. So I have been working on the tree. I take each branch out of the box, place it on the tree and completely entwine it with lights, then I take the next branch, and the next, until every single branch has lights wrapped on it. I don’t know if this is the correct way to do it (which is how I prefer to think of it) or if it’s obsessive-compulsive. I do know I have over 2000 lights on a 7 & 1/2 foot tree, and it takes about 6 hours to light it.
Did you hear the story of how the crowd at a Wal Mart trampled an employee to death when they broke the doors down as the store tried to open on Black Friday? That mentality is precisely why I refuse to leave the house, or even buy anything on the internet on the day after Thanksgiving. It’s the principle of the thing. As Mike Adams of www.NaturalNews.com so aptly said, “It should be noted here that even though they trampled over a human being, they did not stampede over coveted consumer electronics or Big-screen TV’s. No merchandise was harmed in the stampede.” How sad is it that Christmas has come to this.
I was listening to Christmas music while decorating the tree and kept thinking of how simple it used to be. How beautiful and special the season was when I was growing up. Mom would pull out the Elvis records on the big vinyl LP’s, and I of course had to have the Chipmunks! (Hey, I was 8) And in my house, I am determined that the true love and spirit of the season shines through as it was meant to be, and that the meaning isn’t lost in the crass commercialism. It’s too precious, too special, and too hard to get the opportunity to really show the people you love how you feel, from the bottom of your heart.
Maybe, in some weird way, putting up crazy amounts of lights is how I express my deepest feelings of the season, in a grand light show of love. Maybe it works. My neighbor walked by Friday as I was untangling net lights, and thanked me for all the effort, because it brought a lot of joy to his children and the neighborhood. So it’s all worth it now, just for that.
I am not quite ready to put my feelings down on paper yet, but we lost a dear friend of ours this week. The funeral was today. Our friend’s health was so bad that he took his own life to escape the pain and suffering. We are incredibly saddened and will miss him so much. Once again, we are reminded that our health is our most precious possession, to be cherished and jealously guarded.
It’s late and I actually have to get some sleep. Tomorrow will be busy. I will talk to you again soon!
Be Defiant! Defy the herd mentality and have an old-fashioned Christmas this year!
Christy
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