Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
If you are with a large or small family celebrating, I am thinking of you.
If you are celebrating with a friend or two because your family has rejected you, your family is too far away, or you have no family, I am thinking of you.
If you are spending time in a hospital, prison, or other institution, I am thinking of you.
If you have to work today, I am thinking of you.
If you are alone, by choice or chance, I am thinking of you.
If you are missing loved ones who have died, I am thinking of you.
If Christmas is difficult because of an abusive family, I am thinking of you.
If you feel hopeless today, I am thinking of you.
If you feel lonely, even around others, I am thinking of you.
If your Christmas doesn't look like the Christmas in a Hallmark Christmas movie, I am thinking of you.
If your Christmas celebration includes traditions your neighbors would think are strange, I am thinking of you.
If you are of one of the groups who don't celebrate Christmas, or observe it in a secular sense only, I am thinking of you.
All of our experiences of Christmas are equally valid, equally real, equally ours.
May you find what you really need this day, and all the days of your life.
I like that your poem calls out to those who do not fit in the typical holiday greeting card.
ReplyDeleteThis is Lanetta. ( I am on vacation) away from home and truly have time to myself!!!!
Wheee! Isn't it nice to have a little time of your own?
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