The Last T4D for December…maybe :)
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
(This story is from a T4D from a few years back… wow almost 4! Because now I have 5 kids with the youngest being 2! - Still I hope you enjoy it….~ Kirk)Â It may be the last for this month as I am taking some holiday time with the family.Â
My kids ages are 10, 8, 6 and 2… and of course the two oldest are getting wise to the realities about Santa Claus. While this is a fairly natural part of growing up, it seems, at least to me, to be a fairly disappointing one. Not so much that kids will be disillusioned and disappointed beyond repair… they won’t. It’s just that believing in the Magic of Christmas is so absolutely fun….and not just for them, but for me and other adults too!
The other night our family watched the movie ELF for the first time. I found it only mildly amusing, and was much more engaged in watching my kids watch it, than I was watching it myself. …until Santa crashed his sleigh in Central Park. He couldn’t keep it aloft because not enough people believed anymore and it was their willingness to believe in him and in Christmas magic that helped him fly.
Well in the movie a crowd and news reporting team has gathered at the Park because of a “strange crash” and rumors about what people had seen. During the next few moments the heroic efforts of a little boy help to spark and re-ignite the desire to believe in the hearts of the people gathered there..and those watching the broadcast throughout the city. As people begin believing again…Santa is able to get flying again and zooms over the top of crowd outside the park. This of course thrills and amazes believers, converts the half believers and skeptics.
It was during that moment of this B grade movie… that I found my own eyes a bit wet, my smile a bit wider, and my heart and soul was wishing that this would really happen. I felt for just one magical moment the thrill, excitement and awe I had as a small boy… I remember thinking “I don’t want this to go away” and also having the thought, “I wish everyone could feel this way.” I felt the same way during about 2 minutes of Tim Allen’s first Santa Claus movie and during several moments of the “remake of Miracle on 34th Street.
After the movie I gathered my 2 oldest to my lap and described to them, as best I could, what I felt during that moment of Santa’s buzzing over the heads of the people…and of my feelings personal feelings of desiring to believe as well as my wishes that all might experience that bit of magic, wonder and joy that come from such beliefs.
I hope that each of you T4D subscribers have a most wonderful, magical and spiritual Holiday Season and that your hearts are filled with Joy, your faces with smiles and your eyes with tears of gratitude and love for all of the goodness in your lives.
I think due to the Holiday Season that I will temper the T4D messages just a bit as to avoid needlessly overfilling your inbox stockings, but want you to plan on a strong start at the first of the year.
Merry Christmas
Kirk


