This morning, I saw this t-shirt my wife laid out for herself as she readied for her school day.
And, it hit me, my disposition yesterday had some stuff baked into it. One, that things like feeling the spirit of Christmas is something that should happen to me. In other words, it is somebody else's job.
The reality, though, is that such things are really within me. When I'm not feeling it, it is more likely because of things I am doing which prevent me from accessing them.
Christmas is more of a state of being than anything else, isn't it? So, it's really more my choice (than someone else's) to...BE, among other things, jolly.