Shoes! It's
about shoes. My dirty, smelly, already contoured-to-fit-my-feet shoes.
The shoes that need polishing, but that only get a promise. The shoes
that keep my feet warm in the winter and dry in a summer rain. Shoes and
Christmas.
You see, Christmas
is about the incarnation. That is, Christ in his spiritual state, becoming
like one of us in a physical state. The nearest analogy for me would be
the condensation found outside a cold glass of pop. From where does the
water come? The air! The moisture in the air which cannot be seen becomes
water outside the class which we can see. That's something like the incarnation.
Now,
Easy button Return it to long suffering taxpayers including those who have paid huge tabs to educate other people's kids…