I’ll have a “red” Christmas, thank you. (standard:humor, 895 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Dec 09 2012	Views/Reads: 2553/1797	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The Christmas holiday season is always ablaze with beautiful colors. I find it hard to be gloomy or grumpy this time of the year. I must confess, not everybody belongs to this “Holiday Cheer Club.” It is an exclusive club but open to anybody who is tired

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I sighed quite deeply as I closed my checkbook. I almost said to my
wife, “Remember the day...?” I stopped short of vocalizing that 
thought. I thought back when we first were married, which seems like 
hundreds of years ago, we only got presents for each other. I bought 
one present for her and she bought one present for me. What a Merry 
Christmas we had back in “the day.” 

A few days later as we were wrapping those presents I began thinking of
another color. I looked at my wife and said, “This must be what they 
mean when they talked about the golden days.” She laughed, and I 
thought some more. 

My thoughts centered on the fact of what a wonderful family we have.
After all those years, we have accumulated a marvelous family. Thinking 
about all the ones in my family, I began to retract those thoughts of 
veto. 

“You know,” I said to my wife quite thoughtfully, “red becomes my
checkbook.” All that red means all that family. 

The Christmas holiday season means family. There is no family more
glorious than the family of God. The Bible says, “For God so loved the 
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 KJV). The 
whole spirit of Christmas has to do with giving, and God started it 
all. 

I do not mind a “red” Christmas because everyone in my family is worth
it. As Tiny Tim said, “God bless us all, everyone.” 


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