#Tubeathon Helping the
#Covenanthouse to Raise Money
YouTube and What’s Trending hosts an annual Tubeathon
each year to raise money for the charity Covenant House. This year’s event is
on 12/12/13. Every day during the holidays we pass people who are either
ringing a bell for charity or using the holidays as a platform to ask for money
for a cause. How can you help NOT to throw a dollar in the pot when you are
about to spend hundreds on toy dingoes that can hug you, Mario War games, and
the latest craze in Barbie dolls?
But, I say NO to the jingling bells of charity!
Every time I reach for my wallet, I remind myself that
Christmas is all about giving and getting gifts; it is about the biggest and
best light show; it’s about the heartiest dinner I could possibly eat; it’s
about losing ten pounds, so I can regain them eating cookies, pies, and sloppy
amounts of butter in every kind of sauce. And don’t forget it.
Christmas should never be about the poor, a good cause, and
things like building houses for the homeless. That would be as bad the
president trying to get insurance for the poor. “Not During Christmas!” I say.
“Feed your hungry Egos and just forget about Jesus! You can help the poor at
another time of the year. Christmas is about me!”
So, I take a deep breath and mutter, “Merry Christmas” as I
pass by the naysayer ringing a bell and trying to bilk me out of my precious Christmas
club bucks and hearty Santa spirit, turn my head in the opposite direction, and
squeeze hard on my wallet, so my family will NOT have to go without every
bauble they could possibly need this holiday. This year is about them, them,
them! And don’t forget it.
Last year I spent the entire Christmas Eve at Room in the Inn feeding the poor and
making sure they have a warm bed in which to sleep. Well, that should stay on
my Good Deeds List for the next few years. It’s back to me and all my great
friends and family and what they need this year. If I hear one more Christmas
carol that tries to get me believing in something spiritual, I’m going to spit
right up.
You can bark out those carols, and I’ll even sing along. But
don’t you dare put a money bucket in front of you and ask for coins. Even those
pennies are reserved for the stockings across my fireplace. No charcoal for my
kids. It’s every bit of my spare change, leftover Halloween candy, and 10
shares of my favorite Tech Stock. Boy, if Dad would have been like me, I’d be
rich by now.
Remember, “We need a little Christmas, right this very
minute. Candles on the window, carols on the Spinet… Hurry, Santa, hurry down
the chimney. All I want for you now, is to gimme, gimme, gimme. We need a
little Christmas now!@!”
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The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
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minister. One day I heard a still small voice say, ‘God cannot be contained in a
book or a law or even in a religion. Dig deeper, reach further to find me, and
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