K = KRIS KRINGLE
When meeting someone the opening questions tend to be where are you from and what do you do. I’ve been in communities where a third question is who are your people.
In a way answers to these questions are a mini version of one’s origin story. Hollywood realized early on that origin stories play well at the Box Office. If there is any doubt, note the summer blockbusters: Barbie and Oppenheimer; seeking to cash in on holiday season movie going there is Wonka.
The holiday special, “The Year Without a Santa Claus” tells the story of Kris Kringle, the storybook origin story of Santa Claus and features one of my brother’s most favorite Christmas special characters, Meister Burger Burgermeister.
How much do we study and converse on the origin story of Jesus? Sure, there is the nativity story we know so well, yet take a read through of the Gospel of Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus and the handful of women surprisingly listed in the lineage and known as “The Five Shady Ladies.” Who were Mary’s parents? What thoughts raged and spirits clenched in them at their daughter’s news?
Origin stories re-member (punctuation intentional) to our roots, our people, our lines, the lives of those who in some way made us the very focus of their lives. Sometime on a silent night name them.
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