Just so thankful - every day of the year, not just at Christmas - for this one gift of two incredible people with whom I get to share my world, as they share their wonderful worlds with me. They bless me with their presence, and their unconditional love. Someone recently said to me that they weren't sure they wanted to have kids - because they didn't want to be 'one of those people' who loses their identity, and ends up talking incessantly about their children - and they worried that they would no longer have a world outside of the one they shared with those children. My suggestion, then - were it my business to make one - would be to not have children, because you might be missing the point. You might be thinking too selfishly to fully understand what bringing children into the world is all about, and the responsibilities associated with the journey. It is a privilege. It should never, ever be considered a burden.
Every day, I'm being shown a brilliantly shining moment by my children. Every day, they make me proud to be their father. I have done nothing in my life to deserve the unbridled joy I get from simply being with them. Yet, every day, they give me more.
Merry Christmas to you.
My hope is that - someday soon - everyone, everywhere in the world, will understand that there would be unending peace and joy - if only we would pay more time listening to what our children are trying to tell us, instead of us filling their minds with all our own flawed and failed plans.
I wish you all a clearly lighted path through the year ahead.
