The God Who loves us, and died for us, meets us in the darkest hours of our lives with gifts of hope, comfort, reconciliation and peace.
Giving up the "God as Santa Claus" idea is one of the steps to growing in Him...Mother Teresa has been an inspiration to me, and her inner spiritual emptiness and darkness were a preparation, to my thinking, for the will of God to work through her...
I totally disagree. You must think of Santa Claus as only the giver of material gifts. To me, Santa Claus, just like God, is the bearer of the gift of understanding that unconditional giving and giving to all is the best that a human can do...a living example to us all, and in that way VERY Godlike.