I do love Christmas but in growing up I've misplaced it somewhere.Friday, December 21, 2007
Finding The True Meaning Of Christmas - "That Was Easy"
Why are so many people troubled by this video? Because it excludes others? You tell me how a Christmas wish from a Christian at a Christian holiday can include other religions.
Is it political? Well sure it is. It's being run and paid for by a political campaign for a candidate running for President. Is that wrong? I'm a liberal and I'm not convinced it is. I think it's a message that is true and sincere. We can't have it both ways as we so often like to do in America. Either we embrace the true meaning of the Christian holiday of Christmas or we don't.
President Bush is a Christian. His Christmas message from last year was to shop. Bruce and his staff are working extended holiday hours so everyone can have that perfect gift under their tree. If the employees are not sick by Christmas then they're so exhausted that they'll be lucky if they even want to get up Christmas morning.This is how we honor HIM who many of us say is more important than anything else. This is the day we also show love and gratitude to others important to us as well, our men and women in uniform protecting our "rights" and those that were killed in service to our country including those on September 11, 2001. This is a season to show them "how we never forget."
Come On...Cut the crap.....When we're out there buying those gifts let's be honest about who it is we're really making happy at this Christmas Season.
Oh and don't forget those too... that get sick and tired trying.
There's A Black Hole In My Holiday Heart
sym·pa·thy
1: an affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other.
sym·pa·thize
1: to react or respond in sympathy 2: to share in suffering or grief : commiserate; also : to express such sympathy.
A: " It gets so crazy this time of year that I feel just like Alice In Wonderland about to go down the rabbit hole."
B: "I know just how you feel."
ILLUSTRATIONS DERIVED FROM SIR JOHN TENNIEL'S 1865 DRAWINGS
em·pa·thy
1: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.
em·pa·thize
1: to experience empathy
A: "This time of year can sometimes overwhelm me with such a sadness that I feel like I've been pulled into a black hole."
B: "Yea, me too."
An illustration of the twisted space and distorted magnetic fields of a black hole. Courtesy: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Did you notice the word differences in the two definitions? The words "the action of."
I can sympathize because our rabbit holes maybe different or even the same at the holidays. What about the experience of the inability to resist the gravitational pull of the black hole. The being sensitive to the silly small things piling up and out of control in a depressed persons mind.
Because depression is such a unique process, it's hard to truly see or feel the black hole of sadness at the holidays. When does it start, the swirling a little, then a stop if you've caught it in time . Or it continues to swirl until it's too late and you're part of that black hole. Your depression has consumed you and now you have become the invisible.
in·vis·i·ble
1 a: incapable by nature of being seen b: inaccessible to view : hidden 2: imperceptible, inconspicuous
1: an affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other.
sym·pa·thize
1: to react or respond in sympathy 2: to share in suffering or grief : commiserate
A: " It gets so crazy this time of year that I feel just like Alice In Wonderland about to go down the rabbit hole."
B: "I know just how you feel."
ILLUSTRATIONS DERIVED FROM SIR JOHN TENNIEL'S 1865 DRAWINGSem·pa·thy
1: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.
em·pa·thize
1: to experience empathy
A: "This time of year can sometimes overwhelm me with such a sadness that I feel like I've been pulled into a black hole."
B: "Yea, me too."
An illustration of the twisted space and distorted magnetic fields of a black hole. Courtesy: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.Did you notice the word differences in the two definitions? The words "the action of."
I can sympathize because our rabbit holes maybe different or even the same at the holidays. What about the experience of the inability to resist the gravitational pull of the black hole. The being sensitive to the silly small things piling up and out of control in a depressed persons mind.
Because depression is such a unique process, it's hard to truly see or feel the black hole of sadness at the holidays. When does it start, the swirling a little, then a stop if you've caught it in time . Or it continues to swirl until it's too late and you're part of that black hole. Your depression has consumed you and now you have become the invisible.
in·vis·i·ble
1 a: incapable by nature of being seen b: inaccessible to view : hidden 2: imperceptible, inconspicuous
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