Last year, I asked everyone this question: "What are you doing reading a blog on Christmas Eve?"
Then I asked myself: "What sort of idiot would write a blog posting on Christmas Eve?"
The obvious answer then is the same one tonight: "Only you, Dave!"
Then I was reminded of these famous words:
"A week ago I'd have kicked your butt out of here. But you are absolutely right.
I'm not crazy. It's Christmas Eve. It's the one night when we all act a little nicer. We...we smile a little easier. We...we...share a little more. For a couple of hours we are the people we always hoped we would be. It's really a miracle because it happens every Christmas Eve. And if you waste that miracle, you're gonna burn for it. I know. You have to do something. You have to take a chance and get involved. There are people that don't have enough to eat and who are cold. You can go and greet these people. Take an old blanket out to them or make a sandwich and say, "Here."
"I get it now."
And if you give, then it can happen, the miracle can happen to you. Not just the poor and hungry, Everybody's gotta have this miracle! It can happen tonight for you all! If you believe in this pure thing, the miracle will happen and you'll want it again tomorrow! You won't say, "Christmas is once a year and it's a fraud." It's not! It can happen every day! You've just got to want that feeling! You'll want it every day! It can happen to you!
I believe in it now.
I believe it's gonna happen to me, now. I'm ready for it!
And it's great. It's a good feeling.
It's better than I've felt in a long time.
I'm ready."
Sound familiar? These are the greatest lines about what the true meaning of Christmas is, since Linus spoke those famous words on the stage of the Christmas show in Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown.
These words come from one of my top three Christmas Movies of All Time, SCROOGED starring Bill Murray as Frank Cross. I like to revisit that movie every year and those words at the end sum up how we feel and how we should be. So, dear readers....
Have a Merry Christmas, Everybody!
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