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While I so love all that goes with Christmas, it is about much more than being nice and mushy. Christmas is gutsy stuff. Pope Francis appreciates this, when he challenges the world to stop all wars in 2025. And he challenged the world to this two weeks before Christmas. Foolish? Naive? I do not think so.
After all, why do we so simply accept or come to think it is normal practice to expect daily news of human destruction and bombings? Is not such a mindset evil? Why can't we think better of our world? Why can't we challenge each other to rise up to the good that we can be?
The usual Christmas greeting is "Happy Christmas". I appreciate that Christmas cannot be reduced to personal happiness. We can't always be happy and why should we? Life is about much more. So I wish ones a "Holy Christmas", "Much joy of the season" or simply "Peace".
Joy goes to the heart of the matter. It is of the heart and spirituality, and can never be taken away. Like hope, joy and hope are the great values to be treasured and shared in real and active ways. As for peace then, why not? Ho! Ho! Ho!
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