SC#14:

When Dreams Can Come True

Many people as children are invited to believe in magic.

This magic takes many forms, but one of the most popular is that of Santa Claus.

What could be more magical than a jolly old elf, who knows exactly what you want, and who is able to deliver it straight to your door?

(Though that role is mostly filled by Amazon these days…)

Joking aside, there is much to be said about the Santa myth. Which is, of course, a big, fat lie.

We all know, now, in our adult years, that Santa is a made-up figure. Yet we willingly perpetuate the lie to our children, generation after generation.

Why?

Well, that’s easy! It’s fun!

It’s fun having Santa Claus. It’s joyous and wonderful to know that there is this awesome dude out there who flies through the skies with a sleigh led by magical reindeer. It’s exciting to envision him somehow entering our chimney and leaving bags of goodies around or tree and hearth.

And it’s super exciting to get presents! Everyone loves presents, young children especially.

And for a child to know that all they have to do is “be good” and ask Santa for stuff, then get it… well, that’s deliberate creation at its best. That’s Abraham Hick’s law of a attraction in a nutshell: be joyous and excited and get exactly what you ask for.

That is of course, as long as your parents are willing and able to buy it… Ahem.. that’s another story.

What I wish to discuss today is my belief that we should not perpetuate the lie of Santa Claus anymore. At least not the way that we do.

And I will tell you why.

No More Magic, No More Creation, No More God

When we are young and we are given the Santa myth, it is made real. It comes alive. And all the kids around us believe as well (in most places that celebrate this tradition anyways).

And of course most importantly our parents believe in Santa, too. In fact, they often go to the greatest lengths to convince their kids that Santa is still real (up until a certain age, whenever that may be, in which it is ok for kids to say “Bye bye, Santa”).

So there is it, there is eventually a loss of belief in Santa.

And with it, I suggest, begins the slow disassembling of a variety of other beliefs, most important of which is the belief in God!

What!? You may be saying… (who is this crazy blogger anyways, who is Matthew Rondeau and why does his mind work this way?).

Follow me on this for a moment:

When a child loses faith in Santa as real, the child also may realize that the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny and all those others are fakes as well. And that is called growing up.

But what of God? We have as children a complete faith that God exists, because we are told so. But yet, the same people who speak of God once convinced us to believe in Santa. Now Santa is not real, so why should we believe in God?

Oh yea. Religion. For the most part, religious fervor and other sorts of things keep people believing in God because there is much greater cause to do so than to continue the myth of Santa.

Yet, I would still suggest that many who have lost faith in Santa may at some level begin a process of unraveling God in their belief systems. And they may eventually turn from God altogether.

Not simply because they have lost faith in one belief. But also by the nature of that particular belief.

Remember what Santa does: you ask him for things, and he gives them to you.

What of God? Don’t we pray for things from God? And we expect God to fulfill our request…

So if we can’t get what we want from Santa because he’s not real…

And so many millions of people fail to get what they pray to God for…

It undermines our ability to believe in creation, our power to be creators, to ask for something and expect to get it in life.

So why even believe in anything?

What if it’s all a lie?

And that is why I feel it is dangerous to continue to tell children that Santa Claus is a real man doing real things.

Not to mention this is a flat out lie and we all know it. So we don’t want our children to lie to us, but we can lie to them? Oh, simply because it’s all in good fun? Bah!

But I do not hate on Santa Claus and still love the idea of him. I still hold the spirit of giving and joy and Santa in my heart to this day.

So my final suggestion is simply to tweak the idea. Do not tell your children that Santa Claus is a man in the North Pole…

Just explain that the Spirit of Santa is about giving in love to those dear to you. The Spirit of Santa is joyful and abundant. The Spirit of Santa is what’s important here, not the myth of the man himself.

Plus it makes a whole lot more sense for a spirit being to travel the entire world in one night!

Just remember the Spirit of Santa and you can hold Christmas all your life.

And you can hold God, too, without disbelief in the the spirit world. You can continue to know that spirit world is very real and meaningful and is full of love and giving.

God be with you all this Christmas season.

Hope you enjoyed that idea. What do you think? Agree, disagree? What do you tell your kids about Santa? Will your take on Santa change after reading this?

Please comment with your thoughts and share far and wide to debunk the continuing lie of Santa.

Many blessings to all, and to all a good night.

Matthew