Faith is always an interesting topic and one that I keep close to my heart and don’t share too much about… And this post is no different, I meant to post this last month… This is about the faith a kid shows during the Christmas season – I absolutely love the way a young mind works and justifies how things work even when others are starting to turn the other way.
Last year (Dec 2011 that is) we were having a playdate with a friend and on the way home they started talking about Santa. I guess his friend no longer believes and his parents have confirmed that there is no big guy, just a belief in the spirit behind it all. Of course, since they were talking about Santa Christian’s friend tells him exactly what his parents told him… I overheard the conversation and I WANTED to react – I wanted his friend to keep his mouth shut – but I didn’t, I kept my mouth shut and Christian came back with something along the lines of, “That’s too bad that you don't think he's real, we believe, I KNOW there is a Santa.”
Now come around to this year and more and more kids are no longer believing but Christian’s belief stands strong and his belief has now extended to “Elfie” our Elf on the Shelf. Yes, that dang thing that you have to remember to move every so often and who would respond to some questions in a fancy handwriting… Many kids didn’t believe in their Elfs because they were bought at Target --- but Christian believes in his because (even though he has a tag on him – doh) Elfie just magically appears, "he was NOT bought"…
I wonder if our trip to Disneyland helped even more in his belief in both Santa and Elfie, after all Elfie was there Christmas Eve so celebrate and then disappeared at night and then Santa made the trip to Disneyland. I mean, if Santa isn’t for real then who would have brought those gifts down??