Christmas Drinking Ornament

Most atheists never believed in God, because that’s the proper noun used as a Christmas Drinking Ornament for the specific deity that only Christians and Mormons believe in. Jews do not use the full name God, but leave out a letter, even if they aren’t avoiding using another name instead, they write G-d. Muslims usually use the name Allah. But most people aren’t even “people of the book” at all, and instead believe in different deities, Vishnu, Coyote, Thor, etc etc etc. Since people fall away from all forms of belief to become atheist, it follows that most atheists never did believe in “God”, the deity who is named like you might name your pet dog “Dog.” “Simply because their prayers weren’t answered” doesn’t cut it, either, although I suppose it is true for some. Atheists differ wildly from each other, not just in what, if anything, they used to believe in, and perforce how they once thought prayer was supposed to work and thus whether or not it was ever answered, but also in the route they took to get here. But taking the thin pie wedge of atheists who were Christian, we still have the apologists who say “sometimes the answer is no” or “God works in mysterious ways” and so forth. Unanswered prayers is a gap that Christians have worked hard to plug, they, on their own, are unlikely to be the single cause of losing faith…although I’ll grant that the shoddy nature of the plugs is likely a contributing factor.

(Christmas Drinking Ornament)

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It was late november. my oldest daughter phoned me, saying, “come to grandma’s, right now. don’t ask any questions, just come.” my husband and i walked in the door, and i was chattering about how i was going to decorate the church for christmas. my daughter said to me, “sit down. stop talking.” she looked into my eyes, not smiling, and said, “courtney and brooke are both dead.” “not both of them !” i yelled. these girls were the daughters of my second-oldest daughter. they had just been to our town for a visit, the day before. my daughter told me that they had had a head-on collision with a truck, on their way home, the evening before. as the awful reality hit me, i screamed. brooke was only 17, courtney, 19. these girls were not drinkers or drug users. it had been raining, and the car had skidded into oncoming traffic. As i cried, my daughter held me, and cried with me. oddly, my mother sat quietly, not speaking or crying. My dad had died four years before, at the age of 88. we had grieved for Christmas Drinking Ornament, but his death was not a shock, as these deaths were. we traveled to my younger daughter’s home, and to a memorial service for the girls. there were many eulogies spoken for them, by their friends. i felt some temporary relief by sharing with the crowd some of the cute things my granddaughters had said and done when they were little. still, my body reacted to the shock and horror i felt. every inch of skin on my body broke out in an itching rash. my younger daughter’s reaction to the loss of her girls seemed to be withdrawal. she did not want to talk about it, nor did she want to hear me talk about it. i was unaware of this, until my oldest daughter told me that i was hurting her with my reflections. not one person in my family will ever forget these two sweet, intelligent, beautiful girls.

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I flung the mouse to the ground and jumped down. I got my paw around it and shot it up the cat tree. It landed on the 4th level. I jumped up to it from the floor to the 4th level, swatted the mouse through the cubby hole leading to the 5th level and then went through the hole myself to the top level of the cat tree. I shot that mouse back and forth time and Christmas Drinking Ornament again between my paws. I finally threw it back to the floor and purposefully did another gallop to try to impress them. I figured a good cat should not only be sweet and like to get picked up but should also be able to show true hunting skills through play and look cute by galloping.