Crystalline Cool (29)

   
   "Crystalline Cool (29)"
   
   Duncan had made it to Santa Claus.  Standing on top of the glacial, icy snow, decorated in passionate red and with a beard to match the Northern terrain, the old man belly giggled quite lovingly:  "Ho! Ho! Ho!"
   Duncan was amazed and full of Christmas Joy, knowing the solitary Saint Nicholas was IN THE FLESH.  And as if with telepathy, Saint Nicholas transmitted into Duncan's inner ear:  "If a young man asks his father for a fish, will he get a serpent?  Not from a true Son of Man.  And you've been bullied Duncan.  They've walked all over you.  You contemplate suicide because you are lit up with the glow of green peace.  Well let me teach you son; moreover, come into my home, and I will show you all the wondrous willpower of the Saints suffering next to a bullied Christ, whom they murdered, but in return--we snatched SALVATION.  Truly, Christ's greatest suffering on the Cross was not His own corporeal pain, but watching His Immaculate Mother suffer."
   Duncan knew, all would be of good cheer for him as well as the mourning and merciful; plus, those poor in spirit.