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As a child growing up in an impoverished environment, Santa became an idle one who truly existed in my fruitful imagination throughout my growing years. Santa became a person who truly inspired me to be a good child all around. My childhood days of disappointments and bad judgment made way for this Saint as it created a space in my heart for the purest of love and hope to flourish. Though the years to adulthood were hard, they as well were, in the same since, very rewarding. I can honestly say that I credit my folks, rather than detest them,for giving me the compassionate personality I have today.

It was the nineteen fifties, a time of depression and regression for my parents. For years, while growing up, I personally settled on the idea that Santa Clause played a very important part in our folks gift giving efforts. No matter how great or small the gifts were, I truly believed that Santa did his best, along with my hard working dad, to help out in our Christmas present exchange. And though Santa's considered a figment of the imagination to most, it is truly his spirited image that empresses upon all of us as parents still today to make every effort to help a child's heart shine during the holiday season. I feel that I was truly blessed with a loving mother and dad who are responsible for giving Santa this powerful title as a "Saint". But mostly because my parents never had this enchanting life experience, as most children do, to really know Santa like I myself had back then. It was they who truly put the spirit in our Christmas! And though my folks were regarded as strict disciplinarians, like their parents before them, I believe they were the ones to introduce us to this remarkable unselfish being, referred to as Santa, during the holidays. And though they never took credit for providing us with our small but delightful treasures, all wrapped in pretty paper, they trusted the loving words from Santa's heart to assist them in providing our emotional nourishment during this time of the year.

Real or not, it is Santa who keeps order in children during the holiday season, not the parents we credit this to. Hence, "He knows if you've been bad or good!" So, in a child's mind there is no room for ill behavior during this special time of the year, especially if one is to feel this impeccable love of a Saint. Even without presents, Santa provides enough emotional bondage and goodwill to keep the hopeful years yet to come alive in us all. In a parents heart, I honestly

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