With the Christmas season upon us, I, of course, watched the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Choir on PBS tonight! As usual they were wonderful.... but, actually I have seen greater performances from them in earlier years. So guess you can’t win ‘em all. But even so, there is no other spectacular as spectacular as they! They are as perfect and as in unison as the cells in our bodies or as in the rest of nature.
I’m a Humanist. I know for certain that there is not a God as most religions envision. There is no creator nor more importantly, one who “watches down upon us” nor “cares for us”. ....sadly, nor is there a place for us after we die.
Yet.... there is a spirit, not terribly mystical, but which does bind us together as humans. It is simply us. Yes, us! Even as other animals herd do we, especially in times of trouble. We really are very little different.
We can read a book, see a play, watch a movie... and we respond as the book, play or movie touches our memories or feelings and aspirations... and we laugh, get angry or cry depending upon the story. We are all very much alike, you see. Yes I cry when the program says to.
So at Christmas time, the time of the winter solstace, when the nights are the darkest and the sun’s warming has ebbed, we humans band together not only for warmth, but for the light and sounds of our joy of new year and the reassurance of our survival.
The Mormon Tabernacle choir fills that need more than any other single effort for joy in humanities’s darkest hours. I love watching the show every year!
Try to have a merry Christmas, everyone and may your next year be better than the last!
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