It wasn't so much a closed door, it was more a Christmas rejection. There is no place for you here.
I watched him as he told me he wasn’t going to his family’s Christmas party.
He had felt a lot of rejection from his family and now he couldn’t be bothered with all the politics. He was going somewhere else.
I believe he decided that ‘the corner of a rooftop’ was preferable to a delicious Christmas lunch with people who had shunned him.
It’s a version of what I think the writer of this proverb was saying.
It’s better to live alone
in the corner of an attic
than with a quarrelsome wife
in a lovely home. Proverbs 25:24
Or maybe it’s a version of what St. Kenneth Rogers of Houston, Texas sang.
You’ve got to know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run The Gambler
Christmas time.
A time for a sprinkling of sparkle dust over a simple story.
The Bible doesn’t mention a donkey that Mary rode on.
It doesn’t describe any animals around the manger.
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