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Christmas is one of those rare occasions when we actually get to lead with our heart, lighting up our soul, renewing our mind, to energize our strength.
Too often we become “soulish,” espousing doctrines dusty with meaningless detail, or “mindful,” relying on the existing training in our brain.
Perhaps worst of all, we surrender to the notion that our “body of work” is really just our body.
Christmas is different.
Christmas breaks all the rules of conventional wisdom by asking us to be emotional instead of prescribing medication to inhibit it.
Christmas is when we have a choice to become the best child of our possibility instead of languishing in adult complaining.
Christmas is when we insist that there has to be joy instead of yielding to the nonsense of “nothingness.”
Yes–Christmas is a state of “somethingness.”
It is a dream which becomes a plan and is implemented by a spirit of giving and surprised by receiving.
Without Christmas, we would imitate our “sick-in-bed” face 365 days a year–a frown that leaves us pale, with a sense of hopelessness.
Christmas is beautiful–if for no other reason than the fact that it pisses off arrogant, self-righteous, intellectually elite and bigoted souls.
It exposes the Scrooge while pointing at the Grinch and making us consider the power of the Little Drummer Boy.
It is “somethingness.”
It is daring to conceive a dream, and then being willing to chase it through the snow “on a one-horse open sleigh.”
We need Christmas much more than Christmas needs us.
We need a Baby Savior. Otherwise, we are drawn into the pit of the pernicious boredom of theologians.
To break our chauvinism, we require that the Prince of Peace was born of a woman–without the assistance of a penis.
It shatters our images of dreary sameness.
And when it arrives we guzzle from its trough like dying men plucked from the desert.
So here’s to the state of “somethingness.”
Here’s to your joy.
Here’s to our hope.
And from G-Pop to you, Merry Christmas.
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