What are you doing reading a blog on Christmas Eve?

What sort of idiot would write a blog posting on
Christmas Eve?


"Only you, Dave!"


"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." 

"l 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."

                Have a Merry Christmas. Everybody.

Sound familiar? These are the greatest lines about the true
meaning of Christmas 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.



BTW, the other movie is It's A Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart
and Donna Reed.