Guest guest Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 12/10/02 "Breaking All the Rules with Holiday Cheer 2" Ananda burst into the house the other day after having been in town all afternoon with her father, shouting as if she would explode otherwise. "Mommy! Mommy! Yook what we got!" When Jim walked in carrying a Christmas tree I think my heart stopped beating. Actually, I was mortified. I had never been allowed to have one in the house as a child and hadn't even thought about having one as an adult. I think I was expecting the skies to open up and a streak of lightning to come down and zap us to smithereens! But nothing happened. Jim said he couldn't help it; it was for her, and when they'd set it up and plugged it in, I understood why. The little tree has got fiber-optic, rainbow-colored lights that, especially when all other lights are low, dazzle and twirl like magic. I will never forget the look on our child's face when her daddy first turned it on. We haven't given the tree any kind of special meaning whatsoever, and so now another religious rule gets to be broken. It sure seems that, in just going along and being our natural selves, we manage to break an awful lot of rules. However, the embrace of what before had been held as not acceptable, and the simultaneous release of love and joy that seem to be byproducts of this embrace, always make the unintended rule-breaking well worth it. And anyways, isn't the expansion of the heart and the pervading atmosphere of peace and love the whole point of the holiday season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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