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MzMia -> December Holidays/Thoughts and Feelings/Tiny Tim (12/5/2008 9:35:12 PM)
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I am sitting here thinking about the holiday season and what it means to me.
Even as a child, I always realized there was so much more to the holidays than
a Christmas tree and running around buying presents.
I used to feel like Linus in the Charlie Brown Christmas show.
{Actually I still do}
For me it's a season of joy, hope, reflection, sharing, dreams and a final call to the current year.
It is a time to think about love and appreciate family, friends, loved ones still here and those waiting for me in the next life. [;)]
It is a time for me to be grateful for what I have and my life, and yet feel sad for those that
are worse off and suffering.
Many of us will be cutting back on the trappings of gift buying, but that has never been a big
thing for me.
I am hoping that I will see people being generous with not only their money and contributions,
food drives, etc. BUT with their time and spirit.
As our economy continues to crumble, I think about the holidays with that scene from "A Christmas Carol" with Bob Cratchit and little Tiny Tim.
They were one of the happiest families I have ever seen in the media.
They were very poor, but they were a happy and loving family with big hearts.
They had each other, and that was really enough.
Don't most of us love watching little Tiny Tim say "GOD Bless us everyone"?.
Some of us celebrate Christmas, some Kwanza, some Hannaka, other religions and practices,
and some celebrate none of the above.
It really doesn't matter in which way you celebrate, I am wondering what does the "Holiday Season" mean to you, without the materialism, outward trappings and decorations, running around and stressing?
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