Topic: The First Time I Was Disappointed
Prompt words: Heartbroken Hurt Resolve Broken Strengthen This too shall pass Prayer Overcome Faith Give up
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The Christmas That Was No More
My last childhood Christmas was when I was seven. At that age I believed my parents were perfect and knew what was right and wrong, and now Christmas was wrong. We had no tree and no wrapped presents. I remember my dad handing me his bible as a gift. I have no memory of anything else. I have no memory of disappointment, yet as the years went by I felt terribly left out. No TV, no Christmas, no Easter. (BTW I grew up believing that none of the other Christian churches were true Christians, and they and everyone else were bound for hell.)
I’ve been through so many iterations of celebrating as a secular holiday or religious only celebrations to just grinning and bearing it. (I get depressed every year.)
1959 was my first Christmas disappointment.
No Christmas tree here
Bah humbug Happy New Year
Christmas blues again
~RuthScribbles
