A Very Merry Christmas!

Your favorite Peasant wishes all of you, my dear, 

wonderful readers, a most Merry Christmas!

May you be able to get together with all of your 

family and friends, have a grand Christmas dinner, 

light a Yule log, sing Christmas carols and 

contemporary Christmas songs, make out under 

the mistletoe, and engage in that most eagerly 

anticipated Christmas activity of all, exchanging

and opening Christmas gifts --- some open them

on Christmas morning, some do so on Christmas 

Eve. 

But let us not be remiss in acknowledging the 

Reason for the Season, the Christ in Christmas!

It is the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, our 

Lord and savior, who had come into our world 

to show us a better way and to live our lives 

thus. And let us never, ever, be ashamed nor

apologetic about proclaiming this day as what

it in fact is: Christmas. Some people may find 

that offensive to their politically correct 

sensibilities; Jesus Christ and the magic of 

the day and the season are stronger and more 

soul nourishing and fulfilling than their 

shriveled, restrictive, dictatorial, and 

narrow political notions. After all, it's Christmas,

for Christ's sake! And Christmas with all its

heavenly brightness has illuminated our oftentimes

dark world long before political correctness and 

"wokeness", its jumped-up version, came into being; 

we must never be reticent about this beautiful, sacred

day nor the man, who was more than mere man, 

for whom the day was named. Neither government

edicts regulating our ability to gather in our houses 

of worship or in our own houses with family and 

friends, nor bands of radical thugs can force us to

abandon our traditions, our practices, nor our faith

in something higher, bigger, brighter, and more

soul nourishing than the realms of government, 

entertainment, or anything else devised by man.

Rest assured that Christmas will be around long 

after this gruesome twosome has died out! 

Something good, so incredibly and indescribably 

good, will come out of what we as a nation are going 

through at present, and nothing will be able to stop it.

And the fetters of authoritarianism, totalitarianism,

and radicalism will crumble into dust.

God bless us, everyone! 

From Tiny Tim, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

MEM