Christmas in our hearts
The whole world on fire, in disarray. There are nature-made sorrows: the climatic shocks, the storms, earthquakes and fires that leave only scorched earth and heart-broken families behind them. Others are man-made horrors: beheadings of innocents, cities in ruins, antiquities in piles of rubble, a child washed up on the beach.
But some of us concentrate on the topic that the Starbucks cup has no Christmas logo. Our priorities and objections should lie elsewhere than on an organization that rewards its employees appropriately, offers health insurance or tuition assistance for higher education.
Too many veterans are still homeless and ailing. After being asked to bleed for us in a misguided war, there is “no room at the inn” for those not quite injured enough, or who served not quite long enough in the hell we sent them to. Too many seniors still must choose between paying for food or medications. Too many children still go hungry to bed.
Is Christmas not a time of giving, caring and sharing? Christmas is not on a cup. Christmas is in our hearts and in our deeds, and not just now, but all year round.
Halina Slobodow
Spokane