Here we are in Christmas season at last, for sure. The local Christmas music station has been playing the good music since early November, and people have been complaining about Christmas displays in the stores since mid-October.
But now? The day after Thanksgiving? It’s all good. No one can complain about Christmas now.
And why complain anyway? I wrote last week that the whole Christian faith is built on celebrating the birth, death and resurrection of Christ every day, so why tuck the birth celebration into a narrow lane of less than 30 days?
So bring on Alistair Sim and Edmund Gwenn in the performances of their lives, break out the hymns and carols that somehow get consigned to these few weeks every year, and let the red and green lights shine shine shine.
No one can dispute that ’tis the season now, so let’s get busy being jolly.
