Santa Claus is real.
Yep, you heard it here. The world may tell you otherwise, but I’m telling ya the truth. Santa is real. As we grow older, we become more skeptical of Santa, but don't ever doubt Santa.
How do I know?
When I was a kid, I saw the carrots on the roof that the reindeer ate. How else would those carrots get there? THEY WERE EVEN CHEWED(or so our little minds told us). Every Thanksgiving night, my brother and I would set out our letters to Santa and a few hours later, we would hear this bell ring from outside. That bell let us know that Santa’s elves came and got our letter. How else could you explain us getting the things we asked for during Christmas? What about the milk and cookies we set out every Christmas Eve? Where did those go? HELLO! They went to Santa!
Have you ever tracked Santa? Do you remember the newscasts when Santa showed up on the radar on the local news at 6:00 and 10:00? For crying out loud…NORAD tracks him! You can’t fake that!
Santa Claus isn’t real? Have you ever seen “The Santa Clause” parts 1,2, and 3? Are you telling me these aren’t real? Tim “The Toolman” Taylor is Santa! He has to be!
More importantly, have you ever seen Santa walk into a room full of kids? Have you ever seen them in line to see Santa at the mall? Have you ever seen the look on their faces, heard the excitement in their voices?
Friends, that anticipation in their eyes speaks to all of us. It says that Santa, in a way, is as real as it gets and Christmas is good. That look says I love the people who brought me to see Santa and I can’t wait to spend Christmas morning with these people. This, my friends, the feelings, the anticipation, the love….you can’t fake that.
As we get older, that feeling is what we are left hanging on to. Some people go through life and never lose that feeling, while some of us lose it and come back to it later in life. Regardless, the feeling of family, love, Christmas with those who mean the most….that is the same feeling we got on Christmas morning when we “believed.” You can’t deny that feeling, you can’t hide it, and you sure can’t fake it. That feeling is how I know Santa is real. That feeling is what we live for.
Santa is real, friends. He is alive and in all of our hearts. I believe in Santa and I believe in the Christmas spirit. And like Christmas, Santa is coming….
And like Christmas is coming, and like is Santa coming….so is “Little Bambina #2”. May God Bless you as much as he has my little family in the past week.
“Then my kids will be gone and have their own families and will decide if they will tell their kids the truth about Santa Claus. And, in that moment, I hope when they think back on all the Christmases that they spent with us growing up…I hope they smile. I hope they remember the love we shared together…the anticipation of Christ…the anticipation of Santa.”
And so it comes to this…..5 more days until the season….
