So...Christmas anyone???
Yep, been there did that.
Its usually amusing and always kinda sad to me to see the way that different people act around Christmas. For instance, I'm watching a movie right now about a group of terrorists who have taken a building hostage and are working to open the vault. The tech guy (who's name is ironically Theo) is talking to the boss guy, the tech guy says "This last one is gonna take a miracle." To which the boss replies "Its Christmas Theo! It's the time of miracles, so be of good cheer!!!" There's the people who give at Christmas because you're supposed to, the people who give because other's are giving or other's are watching. There's the people who give new unwrapped toys to Toys for Tots and the ones who write the annual charity check (just in time for taxes). There's the people who work the soup kitchen on Christmas afternoon and the ones who attend the special Christmas service whether its Christmas or not because "that's what good Christians do."
Believe it or not, I do know all that "Jesus is the reason for the season stuff." I also know that perfectly pagan institutions do marvelous amazing things for people around Christmas time. And yet...
I've seen families with nothing merry and content because they're together; and families with everything whine and moan because they (usually some 14 year old) didn't get the newest iphone or the car. I've also seen perfectly well meaning families somewhere in the middle who understand the 'reason for the season' and wish only to be together and celebrate with each other but who get caught up in the rest of it, the peripherals, the extras. The presents and the meals and the driving and the people and the smiles and hugs and the food and the presents and who gets what from whom and and and and and...
It makes me sad that they (the infamous 'they') have taken our holiday and made it materialistic and horrid and now they won't even let us say 'Merry Christmas'. I mean really.
Of course I can't find it now but there was an email that went around a while ago about "If they want my Christmas" and it talked about how if we can't say Merry Christmas anymore than I want things like all the stores open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and the post office open extra extra. I (OF COURSE) can't find it, but it was pretty stinkin amazing and if any of you have it I would LOVE to get it again.
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- Natasha
- Boise, Idaho, United States
- Graduate of Biggs High and Simpson University. I'm reasonably weird and just kind of odd. I love the Lord Jesus Christ and want to do all I can to serve Him 24/7. I don't know what I'm doing with my life because God hasn't told me yet, so don't ask.
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Let the pagans have the hustle and bustle. We have the Christ child. No amount of limiting what businesses say in regards to Christmas can change that. Let them have the stress and the debt, we have the Spirit of Peace. Let them worry over offending customers, we can just smile politely, say "Merry Christmas," and let God's light shine through our love. No power can silence God or his followers. We will be the still small voice through which God speaks. A smile and a kind word will do more to change the world for God than all the petitions and boycotts can ever dream. When persecuted for Christ, we must never forget to turn the other cheek. Christ never railed against the world, only the religious. We must be willing to do the same.
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