One Geek

Tonight was really good.

I am actually pretty damn yay Christmas. I love the excuse to be generous…

However Christmas is a really hard time of year. I really think that I need a little hole I can just escape from it all and hide in sometimes.

It’s stupid the way that our society has co-opted Christmas and made it about plastic smiles and false joy. I do think that there is joy in Christmas and that it is an important time to gather with family and friends. But for so many people this makes it a hard time of year. For so many people there is real saddness mixed in with the family and therefore Christmas experience. We live in a broken messed up world so this is no suprise to me.

I don’t know what I am trying to say here. Maybe just if you are blessed enough to not have issues this year with Christmas be thankful to God for that blessing and sensitive to others. If your family pisses you off at Christmas just be thankful that you can still see them. And if you can’t see all your family then I guess just look after the ones you can see.

Me I’ve become a bit of a jadded cynic. I hope I find the hope to again believe that what I’ve long desired for Christmas will actually come one year.

Somewhere in there all this I have to remember that God is there. Jesus lived in this crazy world of ours for 33 years and we are celebrating his coming.

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Rationality is overated.

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Hmm.. Maybe I should reconsider that title. But it’s making me laugh, and reminds me of some of the humor in season 7. Today we watched the first 15 of 22 episodes of Buffy Season 7 at Lesley’s.

It was good. I’m feeling a bit tired now though. I am also left with some serious contemplative thoughts from my walk home:

Love covers a multitude of sins.

For some reason this quote really appeals to me and seems to be very true.

Mercy is important. But what about pity?

I do think that being merciful is important, and that the bible is pretty clear on it. I’d be pretty damn messed up without it.

I’m trying to decide if pity is a good thing or whether it is always just condeceding. Is pity just the co-out for those unwilling/unable to feel genuine compassion?

I have lots more to write but I might save it for a slow day at work.

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