Large white snowflakes drifted slowly down making us blink our eyes each and every time we tried to look up at them falling. Christmas carols filled the cold air as they played from speakers that hung beside brightly lit decorations on the lamp posts. The streets were full of people all with parcels wrapped in festive paper as they shopped on Main Street. “Merry Christmas” was heard echoing through the crowds as perfect strangers wished one another a sincere greeting.

Kids stood outside store windows looking at displays and dreaming the dreams of Christmas as they breathed their warm breaths against the cold glass just to watch it fog up so they could draw faces in it before it disappeared.

Snowballs, sleds, sucking on ice icicles pulled from overhangs. This was Christmas once upon a time. This was Christmas in my time.

I do not think that those moments needed to disappear. After all they remain locked in my memory, so they still exist although all too often they go unrecounted.

Christmas.

A time of family and friends, a time of remembering our GOD.
One cannot exist without the other. They are dependant upon each other.
This Christmas………….remember how it once was and how it can be again.
For the magic of Christmas is in its promise.
GOD Bless all who serve and all who have served.
GOD Bless you.
Merry Christmas to all from Baden .

©Mike McConnery/Baden K9 Incorporated,12/22/08

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