I don’t know if you have ever read the book or seen the animated movie “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” but here are the words to the main song.

You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel,
You’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch,
You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel!

You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch,
Your heart’s an empty hole,
Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch,
I wouldn’t touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!

You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch,
Given a choice between the two of you’d take the seasick crocodile!

You’re a rotter, Mr. Grinch,
You’re the king of sinful sots,
Your heart’s a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch,
You’re a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch,
With a nauseous super “naus”!,
You’re a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Grinch,
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful
assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!

You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You’re a nasty wasty skunk,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch,
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote,
“Stink, stank, stunk”!

I am known in my family as the Grinch. I don’t like to receive gifts or put up a tree or decorate the house with lights. There are reasons for that, mostly because it is a waste of time and effort. I don’t like to receive gifts because we are not celebrating me. I am not the focus of Christmas. So if that makes me a Grinch, than I am guilty as charged.

Over the years, the whole reason for Christmas has become very badly distorted. 10 to 20 years ago stores and people started to shorten the word Christmas to x-mas. Now it is not even x-mas, it’s just called “The Holiday Season” ….URG!!……. How distasteful to me that is.
The whole reason behind Christmas is to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Although December 25th was not the real date of Jesus’s birth, it is still the date that we celebrate it. Christ was born from a virgin women named Mary. God sent his son to earth, to grow up as a child and become a man. A perfect man who would never sin even though He was tempted many times. The life of Christ is a powerful inspiration and a perfect model for us to follow as an example on how we should live. Christmas should not be about getting and giving gifts, having the best light display in the neighborhood, or teaching our kids about Santa Clause and his pointed eared little elves in the North Pole. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with fun stories about Santa and his reindeers as long as we teach the real meaning behind Christmas. I know a gift giving was demonstrated by the wise men who came to see the new-born King over 2,000 years ago and I really don’t have a problem with friends and family giving gifts to each other either. What has happened over the years is that media and retailers have taken the Christ out of the reason for the season and has turned us into “I want, I want” mind frame.
So if I am a Grinch, then so be it. Just so you know, this Grinch will not forget the most great and perfect gift ever given to me and man kind. The gift of Jesus Christ, who has saved me from eternal death. I hope this Christmas season, you too, will remember why we celebrate December 25.