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For all the great efforts made by all the great many driving store to store before dawn and after dinner for four frenzied weeks every year in search of more ways to spend money to save money, something much more valuable has been lost.For all the bluster and all the bellyaching over boycotting stores wishing their customers a happy holidays in place of a merry Christmas, as if stores and their corporate boards who pray only to the almighty dollar were the faltering standard bearers of the meaning of Christmas, something much more important has been overlooked.
For all the tax cuts for the rich and all the budget cuts for the poor delivered by Santa Congress just in time for Christmas recess and just in time for our born-again representatives to fly home aboard corporate sleighs to make it to the church just in time to be seen and photographed singing praises to the Lord on the occasion of his humble birth just in time for the Sunday papers, something deeply unjust is being ignored.
And for all the more children orphaned by drugs into foster care and all the growing millions of working poor without health care; for all the hungry, the homeless, the helpless; for all the least, the last, and the lost, somebody has got to start speaking out for them.
Is there no one this season with a message more valuable than gifts, more important than greetings, and more compassionate than we are?
