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And in the first round…
Yeah, it’s me, not Santa.
- I named my dog “10 miles”. So that I could say to people that I walked “10 miles” daily.
- Do you know what desperation is? It’s shaving all your body hair before stepping on the scale.
- At the bank I asked the new counter lady to check my balance, and do you know what she did? She pushed me.
- How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
Seriously…
I saw Miracle on 34th Street again recently. In the movie one of the main characters is a mother who has been hurt and therefore does not have faith. In this story the faith they want her to have is faith in Santa. Leaving Santa out of it, we all probably know people who withdraw, become cynical or pessimistic because of hurts or disappointments.
It is important to help them recover. The truth of the matter is that optimists make great things…even nations. Pessimists never can. Their minds and emotions won’t allow it. We may be in an era in which more pessimism than optimism is found in our young people. It raises concerns because optimism is another word for faith that we will get through turbulent times. People who have given up hope will also give up our freedoms our constitution our republic.
We do not need blind optimism but faith that we can get to the other side of partisan rancor with our freedoms and republic intact.
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