Christmas Hues (Blues?)
December 25th, 2008
Am reactivating my blog. It went down the first week of September after we got banned by the original host. For what reason, I don’t know. Most of the posts for August are gone because I wasn’t able to back up the uploaded files. Anyway, will do my best to re-post these pieces. In the meantime, here’s an old Christmas essay I wrote four years ago (with a few updates because, well, it is 2008).
best regards,
ian
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Christmas Hues (Blues?)
by Michael Ian Lomongo
“And so this is Christmas, and what have we done?”
- John Lennon, “Happy Christmas”
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Four years ago, the Philippine Daily Inquirer showed this graph which showed that more and more Filipinos no longer feel that happy feeling that used to come with the Christmas season.
Of course, a lot has been written about the depression that comes with the holidays. That feeling of loneliness that just becomes heightened and aggravated because of all the hype, the sense of promise and expectation in this so-called season of love and redemption…
Everyone, at some point in his/her life, must have experienced just how that felt.
It’s as if your whole being is prepped up for an epiphany… a miracle… some magical transformation in your life… for God to reveal his/her face, or even just his/her name…
Maranatha… please, Lord, come.
Just some small miracle… something that would make the anxious hoping and waiting worthwhile…
But it just never came. It never comes.
Or, it probably came and went, without our noticing it.