Jesus is with us no matter what else we don’t have. DP once said something about “not having any money to buy Christmas,” and I was astounded. You don’t buy Christmas. God gives Christmas to us, no matter what.
We don’t get our fake tree out until much closer to the 25th, due to cats and space constraints. I’m not sure where we’ll put it this year. Maybe in the dragon room.
I phrased that badly, I know, but my Real Brother and my friend were the Christmas Spirits that year, and I look back and think what a wonderful thing it was for them to be so Christ-like. So you’re right. You don’t “buy Christmas.” I think after that year, I knew I could get through the bleakest of Christmases.
One of the best I had was when I was homeless, after my kids were grown. :o]
And that is precisely why no one can ruin Christmas for us!