A Christmas Carol

Many people will be reading Charles Dickens’ 1843 story
A Christmas Carol this time of year.
Ebeneezer Scrooge was originally a miser,
someone who loves money so much that he
hoards it, and doesn’t even use it to
make his own life very pleasant.
“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner
in his usual melancholy tavern….
He beguiled the rest of
the evening with his banker’s book, [and]
went home to bed.
He lived in chambers which had one belonged
to his deceased partner. They were a
gloomy suit of rooms… The building
was old enough now, and dreary enough, for
nobody lived in it but Scrooge.”

One poignant moment is when the ghost
of Christmas past shows him his former love
from his younger days, and she tells him “I have
seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one,
until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. …
I release you. With a full heart, for the
love of him you once were.”

After Scrooge’s transformation the story
concludes: “and it was always said of him
that he knew how to keep Christmas well…
May that be truly said of us, and all of
us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us,
Every One!”

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–Douglas Downing
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