Thoughts from here and there…Fractured Christmas Stories

I like the Family Circus written by Bill Keane.

Dolly is reading the Christmas story to Jeffery and PJ (The Family Circus, from the Joyful Noiseletter. Reprinted with permission of Bill Keane. ©Bill Keane.)

“Mary and Joseph were camping out under a star in the east…It was a silent night in Bethlehem until the angels began to sing…Then Santa brought baby Jesus in his sleigh and laid him in a Manger.

“Pay attention Jeffrey, or you’ll never learn the story of Christmas.

“Chestnuts were roasting by an open fire and not a creature was stirring…So the Grinch stole some swaddling clothes from Scrooge who was one of the three wise men riding on eight tiny reindeer.”

This telling of the Christmas story reminds me of Edward Everett Horton and Fractured Fairy Tales that he used to tell on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Jeffrey will probably not get the story straight, especially as told by Dolly. But then how often do we get the story straight.

It might be helpful this year to find your Bible and turn to the Gospels and read the Christmas story in all four of them.

There is no confusion in this, there is only an expanding vision of who Jesus is, why he came to earth, and what he can do for you.