Some Final Thoughts For Christmas 2017

"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these the moving impulses of our life."

President Calvin Coolidge

"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"

Jacob Marley (former partner of Ebenezer Scrooge)

Over the next few weeks we're going to hear news reports and analyses about how "successful" this Christmas was. And the reports and analyses will be mainly about sales of goods and services, and how the dollar amounts of those sales compare to previous years.

They should, instead, be focused on how many of the hungry were fed, how many of the naked were clothed, how many of the sick were healed, how many of the homeless found shelter.

But they won't, and that will prove how little the Spirit of Christmas has come to mean in this country.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:24 KJV