The Grinch....

   My favorite Christmas story is, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" each year I fix some popcorn, curl up in my chair and become a kid again. The girls even bought me a musical Grinch for Christmas one year. But as you watch the show do you really understand the story? The Grinch wasn't a mean person, he just never really understood why all the Who in Who-ville got so excited about a silly holiday called Christmas.
Christmas is in your heart. Yes, we run around with a list of gifts to buy and a list for food that we need to purchase. Some folks wait till the last minute to buy their gifts and then they stress and fuss about it. Some folks are never ready. But whether your ready or not, Christmas will come no matter what.
   See that's what the Grinch thought. If he took all their presents, decorations, wreaths and even their Christmas ham that it wouldn't come. So he set out for Who-ville and cleaned out all the houses of their Christmas pretties. He thought he had stopped Christmas from coming-you might say he was pretty proud of himself. But as he stood there in the faint distance he heard the Who people singing....what....how did it come....I took everything....It came without ribbons! It came without tags, without packages, boxes or bags!
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before..maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more.
   What happened then... his heart grew three sizes and he felt Christmas in his heart. Are you so wrapped up in the rat race that you haven't given it much thought. Christmas is not how many packages you can fit under a tree or if you can out spend your friends. Christmas is about spending time with your family, gathering around the table and enjoying a good meal or sharing a kind word to a stranger
  Thomas and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and as you wake up on Christmas morning may you feel the warmth of Christmas in your heart.