{"id":6639,"date":"2024-12-03T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T03:44:52","slug":"three-outstanding-gifts-relieve-trauma-in-a-post-election-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/three-outstanding-gifts-relieve-trauma-in-a-post-election-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Outstanding Gifts Relieve Trauma in a Post-Election Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three gifts from Charles Dickens relieve trauma this Christmas.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sasanquas-blog.steveblaisin-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas sasanquas relieve trauma\" class=\"wp-image-6671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sasanquas-blog.steveblaisin-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sasanquas-blog.steveblaisin-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sasanquas-blog.steveblaisin-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sasanquas-blog.steveblaisin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Camellia susanqua &#8216;Yuletide&#8217; flowers\/ Athens,TX\/December 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Savor them for a meaningful and fulfilling holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-gift-1-channel-trauma-for-success\"> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Gift #1:<\/span> Channel trauma for success<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of folks never get over early trauma.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost happened to Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blacking-Factory-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Gifts found in trauma\" class=\"wp-image-6710\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Blacking Factory at Hungerford Stairs, Strand, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At 10, his family liquidates possessions to pay debts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Father and family locked in debtor&#8217;s prison<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At 12, Charles forced to work in a boot-polish factory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither family, friends or neighbors saved him from the &#8220;Blacking Factory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12-hour days working in dreadful conditions eked out $1.40 a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is wonderful [shocking] to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age\u2026My mother and father were quite satisfied. They could hardly have been more so if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge.\u201d<\/strong>  Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Dickens-at-the-Blacking-War.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Dickens Christmas trauma\" class=\"wp-image-6662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Dickens-at-the-Blacking-War.jpg 594w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Dickens-at-the-Blacking-War-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Charles Dickens, age 12, 1824, at the Blacking Factory\/Fred Bernard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But, Dickens used his trauma as a creative battery for success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between the ages of 15 and 24, he found jobs in journalism and practiced his writing skills.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, he launched his career into books.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Scrooge-blog.steveblaising.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas trauma Charles Dickens\" class=\"wp-image-6653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Scrooge-blog.steveblaising.jpg 285w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Scrooge-blog.steveblaising-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Charles used his imagination to raise the social-conscience of his readers about the poor and the oppressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">So, he made the characters in his books &#8220;charitable angels.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebenezer Scrooge unwraps his selfishness and converts to selflessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How?  The ghosts show him the true meaning of Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joyfully help others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;He went to church and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk\u2014that anything\u2014could give him so much happiness.&#8221;<\/strong>  A Christmas Carol<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Dickens did the same thing with his life.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He used his trauma to shine light on the the least in . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>his books<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>his articles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>his public readings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-gift-2-never-stop-working-your-talent\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Gift #2:<\/span>  Never stop working your talent <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickens died on June 9, 1870 at age 58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day before, he finished the sixth monthly installment of his last novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was halfway through his fifteenth book, <em>The Mystery of Edwin Drood<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young writer, Constance Cross, was granted a meeting to visit Dickens at his home in April 1870.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She asked him if he worried about the demands of such a project when he signed the contract in failing health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He answered quoting from John 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;As long as it is light we must work, for when darkness comes, no one can work.&#8221;<\/strong>  John 9:4<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickens wished to die working.  Even in poor health, he <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/reimagine-your-future-with-this-time-proven-formula\/#more-6390\">never quit working<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-gift-3-never-need-to-say-good-bye\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Gift #3:<\/span>  Never need to say &#8220;Good-bye&#8221; <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Four days before he passed, Dickens and his youngest daughter, Kate, stayed up till the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She asked her dad if she should become an actress.  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Kissing her, he said, &#8216;God bless you Katie.&#8217;  They were to be his last words.&#8221;<\/strong> Charles Dickens: <em>Faith, Angels and the Poor<\/em>\/Keith Hooper<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate Dickens wasn&#8217;t by her father&#8217;s side when he died three days later.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, she was &#8220;right&#8221; with her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t Christmas a great time to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/give-the-free-gift-worth-more-than-1-billion\/\">be &#8220;right&#8221; with everyone<\/a>?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three gifts from Charles Dickens relieve trauma this Christmas. 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