When Scrooge’s former partner, Jacob Marley, informs Scrooge on that eventful Christmas Eve that he’ll be visited by three spirits – the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future – Scrooge, of course, demurs.  “Thanks but no thanks” was his understandable response to his former partner’s unsettling revelation.  What normal person is looking to add discomfort and potential pain to his or her life?  Scrooge was comfortably living in a box of his own making with really thick – seemingly impenetrable – walls:  a pretty grim box – focused on accumulating money and devoid of human intimacy –