Passages

Being a stay at home housewife  in the USA, I cannot help but be puzzled at the  growing tension and controversy surrounding the celebration of Christmas in the US.

Its in tv, radio and the papers- be “politically correct”. Dont assume that the other person believes in Christmas. Instead of greeting everyone with a hearty “Merry Christmas” ,  why not greet them with “Happy Holidays” instead…

For goodness sakes, why?!

Maybe that’s the problem with the world today, it has become fraught with so much political innuendos, that has made life more complicated. 

I say, lets go back to a much simpler time - when Christmas is celebrated without agenda. When even non-believers can share with the joy and communion that is Christmas.

Haaaay naku, Merry Christmas, everybody!

(what follows below is a song that expresses my wish for Christmas…)

Do you remember me
I sat upon your knee
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies

Well, I’m all grown up now
And still need help somehow
I’m not a child
But my heart still can dream

So here’s my lifelong wish
My grown up christmas list
Not for myself
But for a world in need

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
and wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown up christmas list

As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree

Well heaven only knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown up christmas list

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end, oh