Between Kwanzaa, Chanukkah and Christmas
(not to mention others ~ at blogging time,
which is so very short... you understand!)
and the resurgent coronavirus - thanks to its variant (check out the 1963 movie Omicron - what a hoot)
which brings all sorts of restrictions, constraints,
limitations to your partying abilities/capacities
and probable curfews, containment/lockdowns
in your near future (within those famed 12 Days
of Christmas anyhow ~ rest assured...!)
what can you folks possibly be celebrating... hmm?
I'll tell you what you can celebrate!
THOU SHALL CELEBRATE...
THE BIRTH OF HOPE INCARNATE!
EMBODIED IN THE FORM OF A CHILD
~ BORN FROM A VIRGIN ~
WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
A Virgin, Immaculate Conception
that had been foretold... foreshadowed...
many times over, yes ~ but only once
was it TRUE and an accomplished MIRACLE
~ 2000 years ago (...) with this baby ~
+++ The Christ +++
And though it is hard to be "merry" now
(for some... for a lot of us, verily)
it is more difficult to become joyful
in these pandemic conditions;
with all the economic woes that are prevalent,
the situation in the world getting worse,
rather than better... Rumors of war,
apparent fulfillment of apocalyptic prophecy
gloom and doom, every single day
as environmental concerns grow chaotic,
society equally so, up to a point of no return perhaps,
strife everywhere one can scrutinize...
It becomes, paradoxically, easy to get lost in the DAZE;
forget it all, in total and complete *blaséness*
aloofness... carelessness.
Do as the corporate entities do; thinking only of
the now, the profit, the gain...
Not of tomorrow - much less of the everafter.
Because the DAZE is a bout cheer, gifts, parties.
RIGHT?
It is what they sell to you - what they sing:
AND AS ABBA SANG IT, most especially...
(bravo for the comeback, 40 years later, by the way!)
for those who do not embrace the true spirit of Christmas
and would rather persevere with the secular one...
REMEMBER THIS SAINTLY MESSAGE THEN:
I'll translate that, for ya:
REMEMBER THAT ALL THE BAD THAT YOU DO
STAYS WITH YOU!!!
Remember that in 2022!
