Tis the season of A Christmas Carol...all over the country in schools,church halls, theatres and community centres lurks the meanest, tightest, ‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous,old sinner’ …
SCROOGE!
AND just out on DVD with Jim Carrey…Scrooge fever!
I doubt there has ever been a truly more chilling, properly ‘dreadful’ opening…
‘Marley was dead; to begin with.‘
Of course it is not just Marley who is dead ‘to begin with..’ so are the night visitors who come to pay their respects to the utterly ‘dead’ Mr Scrooge..dead to compassion, dead to generosity, dead to love…
…dead to himself…
To begin with…
For of course, Scrooge wakes up. He wakes up to the nightmare that has been so much of his life and changes it. He loosens the chains that have bound him for so long.
- He wakes up to a new confidence-for-life!
- He changes his focus.
- He begins to notice the existence of others.
- He tries new ways of being and becomes far better.
- He becomes well.
- He becomes CONFIDENT …and his ‘own heart laughed’
So model yourself on Scrooge.
Wake up to your own merrier self!