Everyone has his or her own perspective about the meaning of Christmas day. Some years ago, when Lou Holtz was the head coach of the Arkansas Razorback football team, he was taking his team to play in a bowl game in Tempe, Arizona. The game was to be played on Christmas Day. He was asked how he felt about having to play a football game on Christmas instead of being at home with his family. Lou Holtz answered candidly, "Frankly, I'd rather be in Tempe. After all, once you've been to church, had Christmas dinner, and opened the gifts, Christmas is the most boring day of the year."(1) 

It is not unusual, I suppose, for highly charged individuals to feel that Christmas Day is boring. For others the feeling is not so much of boredom as of let-down. There has been so much preparation, so much p…