Sunday,  December 09, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 144 • 5 of 30 •  Other Editions

I'll have a "red" Christmas, thank you.

• The Christmas holiday season is always ablaze with beautiful colors. I find

The Lighter Side
Rev. James L. Snyder

it hard to be gloomy or grumpy this time of the year. I must confess, not everybody belongs to this "Holiday Cheer Club." It is an exclusive club but open to anybody who is tired of being grumpy.
• Colors abound throughout the season and the Christmas songs highlight this. "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas." "I'll have a blue Christmas without you." "Rudolph the red nose reindeer."
• Oh, the wonderful colors of Christmas.
• One of the most obvious colors of Christmas is green. Right at the center of this Christmas holiday is the Christmas tree decked from top to bottom in beautiful colors and lights. Nothing says Christmas quite like an old-fashioned Christmas tree.
• My thoughts along this line are, let the grumps and grouches complain about the Christmas tree. For myself, I will look with admiring wonder at the beauty of the Christmas tree.
• Then of course, who could forget good old Santa Claus dressed in his red suit. I never could figure out why Santa's suit was always red. Throughout the years, I never gave it too much thought and assumed it was a fashion statement from the

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