EXPECTATIONS As the actual date of Christmas approaches in this mid-portion of December, most of us, I dare say, feel some sensation of expectation concerning a certain something we would like to have for Christmas.
Such a wish can be for something great or small. It makes no difference because we all know the money to buy Christmas gifts has long-since been expended. Since we we were at that time, not expecting such gifts, let our heart run loose and say what one thing you would like go have were it possible. Whatever you might select can be great or small because you know you are not going to get it any way.
We have all done such last minute wishful thinking, I'm sure. We did I when were younger and as we put on years we tend to deprive ourselves of such “foolishness” and try to face then real world.
I have wondered when we did such a thing naturally. I dare say most you would expect me to say that my lowest point occurred during the hectic days of World-War II when doubts view with fears and a lack of confidence in any so-called permanent values in our patterns of living.
No. War time is not such a time of such despair. Regardless of how bad news may be from the “front” of such conflict the unquenchable flame of everlasting “Hope” endures in our hearts and minds. We maintained strong Hope that good news would follow.
The worst such times, I would say,occurred here in the United States during the Depression. It was time when hope, too, was lost. I also feel we deceive ourselves today when we look back and say - and believe - that he ”solved” the problem of the world-wide onus. He believed it himself at times.
The very forcesd which caused the Great Depression are rampant throughout the world today and hang over us like the fabled sword of Death. I would ask the gift of an internationally-minded leader who is aware of such an impending threat to our very existence.
Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@adelphia.net 12-18-06
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