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- Merry Christmas 2025 God rest ye merry gentlemen let nothing you dismay, remember Christ, our Savior was born on Christmas day. To save us all from Satan's power while we were gone astray, oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy. Oh, tides of comfort and joy. Hi! Welcome to the Christmas episode 2025 WANZOLOGY! I am your host, The Wanz wishing you a Merry Christmas given that this episode will be coming out on a Christmas day I wanted to impart a few thoughts about Christmas. When we were younger, Christmas was this magical time where anything could happen. If you were a good boy or girl, the odds of you getting something really cool were great, fantastic. And if you weren't, the odds were less and as we got older and we figured out some things, especially when we got to adulthood and figured out a lot of things!! All of a sudden being good was really kind of down on the scale of things, wasn't it? Perspective is a nasty thing when perspective changes sometimes. Sometimes the change in perspective leads to a discovery and that discovery imparts knowledge and the more that we know, the more things we can do. What does that have to do with Christmas you ask? Every single Christmas that you can recall was about the same until that one, first one, where it wasn't the same. You knew more. You knew the gift that someone had bought for another person, and you hadn't told the other person what they were getting, but you already knew that it was purchased by somebody else. You knew Santa Claus wasn't like in the cartoons. You learned monetary value is just that monetary value, and then your perspective on Christmas started to change. It became, “How much can I afford? How much can I get away with to pay for these things that I want to get for someone else? Because if I don't pay a lot, well that'll mean that I don't care as much.” Now, I'm not saying that it's always like that, and I'm not saying that it's everyone who feels like that, all I'm saying is I've had that experience. You don't have to have my experience. I have my own, thank you, but once you started figuring out that you needed to purchase gifts for other people, didn't Christmas change? Didn't Christmas become something other than Frosty the Snowman? A Year Without A Santa Claus? Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer? Alistair Cook playing Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol? It turned into something different. You started paying more attention to those commercials that you saw and heard, got tired of, couldn't wait till they stopped, but you paid attention to 'em, didn't you? And some of them were kind of good ideas, weren't they? You may have decided to get that thing that was advertised. That's not a bad thing. Sometimes it's hard buying for other people and hoping they like it because you're gonna feel some sort of way if they don't, and you're gonna feel some sort of way if you're not able to get them that thing you wanted to, and you have to get them something else. So now that Christmas has changed into this monetary exercise, how do you define the Christmas spirit? What do you do with that? What I try to do is find as many children as possible and watch them. Watch them as they stand in line to wait to see Santa Claus at a store. Watch them with their parents being let around a mall or something. Children are the epitome of the Christmas spirit, and you were once like that. Don't, don't deny it. You couldn't wait to go to sleep. You couldn't wait till Santa came. You knew Santa was not gonna come unless you went to sleep. That stressed you out big time, “I gotta go to sleep!!” I remember. I remember, but you figured out that you not going to sleep, it only had some things to do with Santa Claus and now that you're older, you realize how much it doesn't have to do with Santa Claus, which is fine. If you've lost your Christmas spirit, I suggest that you find kids anywhere, anytime around Christmas time. Then when you find them, and if you're paying attention, they will show you what Christmas is really all about. Christmas is really all about faith and hope. You have faith around Christmas time and it's different from say, 4th of July or Memorial Day or St. Patrick's Day. The kind of hope that you have at Christmas is different, isn't it? It's different in the sense that your hope and faith is more directed towards other people than normal. You want to do more good things for other people than normal. That's what Christmas is all about, doing good things for other people. And I don't mean buying them things, it's never about buying them things, why do you buy them things? You think that much of them, that you would buy them things. That's what Christmas is about. Thinking about someone in such a way that makes you want to gift them something. That spirit is based on faith and hope. Now, everybody hopes at Christmas that the gift that they give is appreciated. It's the right one, it's the right size. Everyone wants to get that one thing, and it won't be Christmas until you do. But like I said, you take that apart and it's about hoping you find it, hoping you can afford it, hoping it's the right size, hoping they like it and you have faith that you can find it. You have faith that you are going to buy, hook or buy crook, well, not by crook, hopefully, but you're gonna find out how determined you are to get that thing. Waiting in long lines, sitting in your car not moving because parking lots are jammed with other people doing exactly the same thing you are for exactly the same reason. Yeah, Christmas is great. Christmas is great at showing us who we really want to be and sometimes who we are. We want to be filled with faith and hope. We want to be filled with all the goodness that we've ever known. We want to be able to take some of that goodness and gift it to someone else. You could just go buy stuff for yourself and not worry about getting or giving any gifts, but that wouldn't be Christmas, would it? It'd be something, but it wouldn't be Christmas. It'd be different, and definitely not Christmas. See, without the spirit of Christmas. It's just another shopping extravaganza. It's just another reason to shop for something. It's that hope part that makes it more like Christmas. It's that faith part that gets you through the hope part that makes it Christmas. You remember when you were a kid? And you told Santa Claus you wanted this thing and that thing, and you hoped that you were a good boy and a good girl, and you were gonna get that thing more times than not, you did. Did that mean you were good enough? Bad? What did it mean? As an adult, you now know? Because as an adult you want to get things for your kids. You want them to experience the same feeling on Christmas morning that you did as a kid. And I mean, if that feeling was of dismay and arguing and anger and hate or no love, I'm sorry for you. You probably can't relate to what I'm talking about. What is supposed to be Christmas, may not be attainable for some, for various reasons. All I can do is offer my sympathy and my prayers. If you're going through that, you have my sympathies and you have my prayers, but I bet you buried deep, deep, deep inside of you, there's that hope and faith that you can do something for someone else and that they will appreciate it. Christmas isn't about giving. It isn't about receiving, Christmas is about feeling. How do you feel? Some people spend their Christmases all alone, how do they feel? Some people spend their Christmases inundated with family members, they've just taken over the house, how do they feel? How does the person who is having to work alone far away from their family, or maybe they don't have family, what do they feel like? Do you know? Can you imagine? ithout the hope and faith I was talking about their Christmas is different, isn't it? Probably not resembling yours, probably different than yours, but it's Christmas nonetheless. So as you get things together and. Truck off to 7-11 'cause it's the only thing that's open that has the tape that you need to finish wrapping, as you put gas in whatever vehicle or charge up, whatever vehicle you're gonna take to go wherever you're gonna go, try to remember Hope and Faith, the cornerstones of Christmas. I hope your Christmas is in some way, magical, wondrous, like when you were a kid, and you don't have to experience it, but you do have to witness it. This is what I hope for you. I have faith that you will find the Christmas you deserve. And if it's not good, you might wanna take a look at your life and maybe change some things. My hope and my faith is that you'll have a wondrous, safe, loving, caring Christmas. Don't forget it's hope and faith, the cornerstones of the Christmas spirit. I am The Wanz and I am wishing to you a very, very Merry Christmas, a prosperous and healthy new year, and I'll see you next time.