2018 Worship Guide

Page 12 2018 Worship Guide LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Wednesday, December 5, 2018 T here are certain people that are hard to like, and Ebenezer Scrooge is one of those people. When you read through the actual script of “A Christmas Carol” Charles Dickens wants to portray Ebenezer Scrooge as the kind of person that you just don’t like. Dickens writes: “Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand. Hard and sharp as flint. No wind that blew was bitterer than he….Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often came down handsomely, and Scrooge never did.” Scrooge was despicable. Yet, this cold, unfeeling, tight-fisted money- grubbing man goes through a complete transformation by the end of the story. Is it possible for a person to really change that dramatically? If you are a Scrooge, must you always be a Scrooge? Is Charles Dickens’s story a fantasy? Or can it be reality? Can a Scrooge really change? CONTINUE