Dear Family,
. . . yes, you are family. The same
blood runs in our veins. Empathy strikes our mutual core (as in “Cor”, Latin for heart). While
we watch the sparkle in children’s eyes as they gather around the Christmas tree
let us put aside all selfish emotions and delight in their innocence. After
all, regardless of their petty outbursts of anger, their “mommy I hate you’s”,
their snitches or pocketing of friend’s things, they are innocent. It is innocence
that Christmas celebrates. Christ came in innocence. Less than two years after
his birth in a stable the death of twenty-eight Innocents cast a shadow on the event. The Catholic Church proclaims them Saints to
inform us that without having assented to a specific religion, without having been
baptized into formal Christianity, without having contributed anything other
than smiles and tears to the world family they are truly in that place that is
Eternal Christmas.
Let us celebrate the children,
yours, ours, everyone’s. Let us smile in spite of work, struggle, pain. We wish
all of you the most joy filled holiday ever—no matter what . . .
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