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BY KEITH ROULSTON
He went to bed hollering and screaming,
fighting to the last possible second the end
of another day. He hurls his little body full
blast all day long, going from one
adventure to the next, sometimes at a rate
that has his body travelling faster than his
feet with painful results. He's always
traveling faster than his mother can keep
up with.
But by now he's just a cuddly little
30 -pound bundle of love, snuggled in one
corner of his crib. So innocent. So sweet.
So peaceful. So young. Two years old and
a whole lifetime ahead.
The television these days, spouts a never
ending list of suggestions for Christmas for
this precious young bundle, all shining and
new and guaranteed to break down within
a week, if not sooner. But if I could put the
gifts on my Christmas list that I'd like to
give him no matter what the price, I
wouldn't include any of these. My gifts
would be free, but would be priceless.
To you my son this Christmas, I would
give the gift of always being able to see the
world as the exciting place you find it now.
So many of us grow old before our time,
seeing only the sameness and dullness,
missing altogether the fascinating things
that take place around us all the time. We
look at a field of hay and see just a field of
hay, not the beauty of the clover blossom,
not the hard work of the 'honey bee,
pollinating the flowers, not the magic of
the butterfly flitting over the green surface
not the sound of the wind, rustling between
the stalks. We grow used to things and
take them for granted, and turn our
fascinating world into a dull one. I hope
you, my son, will be one of the fortunate
few who will remain alive to the excitement
of the world as you grow to manhood.
To you my son this Christmas I would
give the gift of love. May you always be
able to give love as fully as you do now
when you throw your chubby arms around
my neck in a hug that nearly breaks a
vertebrae. May you always be open to
receiving love, just as you are now, to
being able to put your full trust in someone
you love. not holding back in fear of being
betrayed. And may you have the good
fortune to have that love and faith
rewarded by someone who honours that
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faith, and returns love freely.
To you my son this Christmas, I would
wish that you may always keep that
openess that now leads you to tell your
mother all your deepest thoughts. What a
better world this would be if people could
truly communicate, not holding back for
fear of being ridiculed or misunderstood.
To you my son this Christmas, I would
like to give the knowledge that in a world
where everything seems to have a price
tag, where a few more dollars will
supposedly bring happiness, the best
things in life are free. Never get caught up
in the world to the point where you
abandon the real things in search of the
fantasies. A beautiful sunset will always be
more precious than the most expensive
painting and a seat under a tree on a hilltop
worth far more than the most expensive
piece of furniture. No money can buy music
as rich as the wind sighing through pine
needles or as relaxing as the lap of waves
stroking a beach. Often in the hectic
modern world, you'll be tempted to forget
these things, but my hope is that you would
always be able to find the time to stop and
rediscover the importance of nature, and
put your life in tune with its rhythms.
To you my son on Christmas, I would
give the knowledge that truth is one of the
most important words in the English
vocabularly. May you always be truthful to
yourself as to others because if truth is
forgotten, what is left?
One of the gifts I would like to be able to
give you is a sense of patience. It is so easy
to become impatient with yourself, those
you love and the world in general."So often
things move so slowly and as we creep
from day to day it seems little changes,
little improves. But someday when you
look back on your life, you'll see how things
really seemed to change so quickly.
May you also have the ability to step
above the day to day crisis, to know that
the things that seem too urgent today will a
day from now, a month from now or a year
from now seem so unimportant. We create
so much stress for ourselves because be
become so wrapped up in our day-to-day
troubles that we make them too important
instead of realizing that we'll always
muddle through and tomorrow will be a
better day. ❑
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