Written by: Spencer Huddleston
Did you by any chance receive a membership offer from the Jelly of the Month Club as a Christmas bonus? No, this Ian’t National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, but the feeling Chevy Chase had is clearly present at our school this holiday season.
Our once sufficient hiatus from school into the land of reindeer and A Christmas Story marathons has been cut to a measly seven school days. Sure, we’ve already had a couple snowdays...well, ok “snow” being a suspicious white powder in an envelope outside our school, but it was still a break!
This depressing predicament leaves most of us standing on a figurative bridge like George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, not in search of an end to our lives as he was, but instead searching for a way to make the best of our shortened break. Perhaps like George, we can be saved by angels this Christmas.
Our angel, however, is not named Clearance, but Hope. Hope sits on our shoulder or in the back of our minds, and helps us through each and every day. Hope helps us find security in a nation shocked by terror. Hope reassures us for the hundredth time that it WILL snow on semester exam days, exempting us from finals yet again! Hope cries with us in times of loss, but she quietly reminds us how precious life is, and how often the good outweighs the bad, no matter how bad it seems.
This Christmas, I hope you will realize how wonderful life can truly be, and in seven measly days you can spend enough time with every person you care about to let them know how important they are to you, and how much every smile and caring touch means every day of the year.
Prepared for web by Shawna Nash.
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