[Oe List ...] FW: Santa poem, Gene Marshall?

[Lynda C]

From: John Cock <jpc2025 at triad.rr.com>
Date: Saturday, December 4, 2004 at 12:12 PM
To: llc860 at triad.rr.com <llc860 at triad.rr.com>
Subject: FW: Santa poem, Gene Marshall?


-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda Cock [mailto:llc860 at triad.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:38 AM
To: Cock, John I
Subject: FW: Santa poem, Gene Marshall?
Importance: High

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER NOT CRY
YOU BETTER NOT POUT
I'M TELLING YOU WHY
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

HE'S MAKING A LIST
AND CHECKING IT TWICE
HE'S GOING TO FIND OUT
WHO'S NAUGHTY OR NICE
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN


IT IS SAID OF OLD, THAT THE BAD BOYS AND GIRLS GOT NO GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS--
ONLY A SWITCH TO LASH THEM WITH.  BUT SO FAR AS  ANYONE KNOWS, NO SWITCHES
HAVE EVER BEEN LEFT AT CHRISTMAS.  SANTA CLAUS TAKES GOOD GIFTS TO EVERY
HOUSE, TO EVERY PERSON IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION.  THIS IS THE WAY THE STORY READS.  EVERY
PERSON, EVERY HOUSE.  IF A CHILD RECEIVES NO GIFT FROM SANTA CLAUS, THAT IS
A DEVASTATING BLOW.  NO MATTER HOW MANY GIFTS ARE RECEIVED FROM MOM, DAD,
BROTHER, SISTER, THOSE GIFTS CANNOT REPLACE THE GIFT NOT RECEIVED FROM THE
ONE WHO TAKES GIFTS TO ALL.  YOU SEE IN THIS STORY, ALL GIRLS ARE GOOD
GIRLS--FOR ALL RECEIVE GIFTS.  AND ALL BOYS ARE GOOD BOYS--FOR ALL RECEIVE
GIFTS.

NOW I ASK YOU:  IS THIS A TRUE STORY?  HAVE YOU EVER MET THAT WHICH GIVES
GOOD GIFTS TO ALL?  INTO EVERY HOUSE?  BY ANY CRITERIA YOU AND I HAVE
CREATED, WE ALL DESERVE SWITCHES. YET, IN SPITE OF HOW WE SEE OURSELVES,
THERE IS THAT EXPERIENCE IN OUR LIVES OF THE ONE WHO BRINGS GOOD GIFTS TO
ALL.

ST. NICK, SANTA CLAUS, OR WHATEVER OTHER NAME IS USED, THEY ALL DEPEND UPON
OUR COMMON LIFE EXPERIENCES OF THE ONE WHO BRINGS GOOD GIFTS TO ALL, TO
EVERY HOUSE.  THE STORY DOES NOT SAY HOW THIS IS DONE OR WHY.  IT SIMPLY
SAYS THAT IT IS DONE.

"YOU BETTER WATCH OUT. . . I'M TELLING YOU WHY!  SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO
TOWN.!"







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