Look At It This Way (#LAITW)

What a wonderful Christmas experience. I’m something of a Christmas connoisseur – movies, songs, books, versions, from the very warped (like Bad Santa) to the disgustingly sweet (like some movies on “that” channel can get). I’ve studied St. Nicholas, even wrote and performed a short 1-act about him. I thought I had seen every angle there was.

This book is altogether different, captivating, inspiring, thought-provoking. I guarantee you’ve never contemplated the Christmas Story from this angle, let alone St. Nick’s story. I couldn’t put it down, about 4 hours straight through; good thing it was something of a lazy Saturday afternoon (after adding some Christmas lights to the back deck).

Just get it and read it. You can thank me later.

Are you a God person? Or a Nature person? Or some sort of in-the-middle spiritual person?

It really doesn’t matter. Either way, we did not create ourselves. “The World” (whoever, whatever, however) created us just like everything else was created. Whatever we do is perfectly natural. We (human beings) are as much a part of nature as anything else.

So, what separates us from the animals? I offer this. All living things are survivalists. All living things kill/destroy other things to eat, live, etc.

So, what separates us from everything else? Humans have decided (most of the ones I know, anyway) that we have a right to survival, but not at the un-do expense of others. We have a right to kill others if others threaten mortal harm. We have a right to eat animals and plants as long as we’re prudent and conservative about it. We do not have a right to take from others, period. Can you wrap your mind around the fact that starving is not an excuse to steal in the human world, but is for anything else?

It may seem a subtle difference, but it means everything. Both ways.

Trump suggests we stop allowing Muslim immigrants for a while to give us time to sort things out. And the left/media go nuts. People have no notion of laws in place and history (you all might review 1952, and the 40-year period after the world war.

You mean fear women and children like the mother of an infant that took out 14 people in San Bernardino? Yes.

Oh, and one last thing. Did you know you Obama blocked Christian refugees from entering the country? I see.