It’s time to go shopping once again, and this is a
conversation that you might hear one day:
“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 gift; or
are you looking for an 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.
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 if we were to
replace Christmas with Holiday. Are we
to replace popular Christmas
movies and Christmas songs
with the words “Happy Holiday”? 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
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