Sacrifice

People sacrifice themselves every day to the alter of love

Not literally of course

I mean that they take a hit for love

For compassion

To make a difference in the world

To heal others

To try and heal By stripping wide open the pain

Of bearing it

I've seen it so much

In ordinary people

Leading ordinary lives

The love is there

To help a stranger

To make a difference

To be in the flow with life

To be open to loving

To let the walls down

Even if it's only to prop up someone else's for a moment or two

Santa and God

My God.

Because he isn't a man

Because he doesn't live in the sky

Because God really does see everything

Is part of everything

Can coincide with Santa better I think

Does that mean I agree completely with lying to children

About carrying on a charade that they deeply believe and love

And then ripping it away from them.

Most people see it as beneficial and harmless

Yet I see it as deception on a very deep level to trusting and innocent children

It's a lovely thought. But it's better left to fiction. Than passing it off as reality and then pulling the rug.  Plenty of things that are fictional are celebrated. Santa should be like that.

I like it too. The sentimentality of the season. But the look in my daughters eyes when I told her.

So she wouldn't get her heartbroken at school or accused of lying or being ignorant

She was of the age I truly thought appropriate.

Wish that I could have given her more years

Wish that it were true and I could give her a lifetime. Although. If you think about it. It is a strange concept.

An old man breaking into your house in the middle of the night?  No wonder that scares some autistic and even non-autistic children.