Are you a Scrooge? Good!
Let us all be like Scrooge! I’m not kidding. I am calling on the world to be scrooges. I think this whole season needs modern day scrooges. But wait, I know what you are thinking, no not the “Bah Humbug” Scrooge. I want to be like the Scrooge at the end of the famous tale: “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world…” His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him…” “ and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.” (Dickens, “A Christmas Carol, Stave 5) We all know the story how this grumpy cranky hateful miser was taken from sinner to saint in the course of one evening. Yet when we speak of Scrooge we usually mean someone who is not “in the Christmas spirit”, or who embodies Ebenezer’s favorite line “Bah, Humbug”. In a world filled wit