Wednesday, December 17, 2008

If the Fates Allow

Christmas magic is all around, but this year doesn’t feel quite the same with daddy away in Iraq. He says it will be, “just another day” as it will be here at home for us too. The feeling reminds me of my favorite Christmas movie Meet Me in St. Louis. Yea, it’s not a typical holiday flick, but the main dramatic scenes take place at Christmastime with Judy Garland singing that marvelous holiday tune Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

The movie was released in 1944 during World War II and the song had special meaning for audiences then missing loved ones away serving their country. That endearing theme always tugs at my heat-strings each time I see it, especially this year feeling melancholy for the warmth of an old-fashioned, family Christmas.

Just getting by day-by-day is tough when you are counting the hours and being separated by war and many oceans will truly tell if two souls are made for one another. Oh, the irony of the familiar routines we all too often take for granted like snuggling, kisses, and handholding. As the song goes, “Someday soon we all will be together…if the fates allow.” For this Christmas season, we’ll don our holiday faces and get by all right even if our hearts aren’t quite as merry.

Our only wish this Christmas is that daddy returns home safe. Each night we dream of his homecoming and the first breathtaking glimpse of him walking towards us in the airport. That look, the first glance that makes our hearts leap, is worth all the waiting.

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