“Good afternoon, I’d like to buy a Happy
Holiday gift.”
“For what occasion Sir?”
“It’s a Happy Holiday gift for my wife.”
“Do you want a Valentine, Birthday, Anniversary, St. Patrick’s or a New
Year’s day; Easter, Mothers, Cinco de Mayo, Independence day, Labor day,
Columbus, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Daylight Savings, Veterans, Hanukkah or a
Kwanza gift?”
“No, none of those - I want a Happy Holiday gift. People use to call it, uh, Christmas, yeah, that’s it – Christmas. I want a Happy Holiday/Christmas Gift.”
Are we coming toward this type of department store conversation in the
future? Is there soon to be a day when
we’ll have a separate departments in stores that run all year long, contains
nativity sets, heart shaped boxed chocolates, shamrocks, bunnies, crosses,
specialty foods, menorahs, turkeys, flags, pumpkins and fire crackers. It would be the largest department in the
entire store, well-stocked and well-staffed establishment; open all year long
and available for your Happy Holiday needs.
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If you’ve noticed, some of the above mentioned holiday names have been
changed (and not to protect the innocent).
Why do we “mess with a good thing”?
Christmas is understood
in many different languages. Many
websites would have to change their domain names. Are we to replace popular Christmas movies and Christmas songs with the
“Happy Holiday” motif? Try it. It doesn’t work.
Well, Merry Christmas and
remember to keep CHRIST in the masses.
The Gift
It
wasn’t given to you on Christmas, because we don’t wait to express ourselves on
just one day; and besides that — it’s Jesus’ birthday and not yours.
It
wasn’t given on Valentine’s Day, because we love you all year long.
It
wasn’t given on St. Patrick’s Day, because we, as Christians, don’t believe in
‘luck’.
It
wasn’t given on your Birthday, because we’re glad that God had a purpose just
for you on that day; you were born and that was special enough.
It
was given because of the love that God instills in us to be obedient when He
calls us to bestow blessings to someone, and to give that ‘gift’ whenever He
asks us to bless someone.
(Excerpt – “Where Did That Come
From?-Revised” by Ms. “V”
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