I have discovered where the Grinch (or Grinches) live. He lives in my little city. My neighbor at the bottom of my hill has for years been putting up a beautiful display of artistic elves carrying presents. He must have been working on it most of the year because this year it was splendid and bigger than ever. This year he must have had over twenty elves and the labor involved had to be huge. Notice I wrote in the past tense. They are no more. Last night some ignorant oaf, most likely inebriated, trashed them. We were anxious for our grandchildren to arrive to enjoy them. Now they are gone for no one to enjoy. It is difficult for me to imagine the feeling of my neighbor artist when he went outside this morning.
Why is it that some people want to destroy things? Could it be that they don’t know how to make anything so instead they destroy out of jealousy? Can you imagine what the world would be like if it were populated with mostly that kind of people? There do seem to be groups of people in the world bent on destruction instead building something positive. How very sad.
Fortunately there are more good people than bad, more builders than destroyers, more lovers than haters. It just seems like there are more bad because what they do is so blatantly in our faces. Unfortunately Time and other news magazines put pictures of the really bad guys on their covers. How disgusting is that?! It only inspires other bad guys to follow suit. Billy the Kid was a jerk. Why does our folk lore include him and others like him? Maybe we are the sick ones.
The Bible tells us to think on good things. Ouch, I just didn’t do that!
Written by Roger Bothwell on December 14, 2010.
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