What I DON'T want for Christmas

Flip side of the coin

Hey, Please, I may be one of these PC people in that I don’t mind if someone pulls a “10 commandments” structure out of a city square that Cecil B Demille put there as a movie prop. (Guess for what movie?) I looked at what Mapplethorpe did with the crucifix and the urine jar and it honestly does not bother me. I have had and will still have God in my heart. I have been an elder at my church for more than a decade, and helped in other ways. I have been involved in church ever since I could be. And I really have never seen an anti-Christmas/holiday movement. Oh well, perhaps I have not spent enough time looking for such a movement. So where is this going?
Well I think if we all look at what we have going for us instead of what bugs us, we will be closer to God and perhaps closer to the Christmas spirit. Do you have more than two dollars in your wallet, then be thankful, because most of the world; well over seventy five percent survive on two dollars or less a day. And I would like to think that they are just as grateful to God as I or we are. Next clean water, how often we take simple clean water for granted. Again most people in the world do not. Ever go to a foreign country where you have to boil the water and even some of the bottled water is questionable? Imagine raising your kids in all of that. Health care, we may gripe about it, however on Christmas Eve, my wife and others will be at the hospital like any other day. I have known my wife for over ten years, one Christmas Eve have we been in a church together, all other times she been at work at the hospital or I have. Does it bug me? At times, until I look at ALL THE OTHER BLESSINGS WE HAVE. Christmas Eve, my wife will be at work, and so will cops, and fire fighters, soldiers, people at the electric and gas companies, and… some of the Wallies.
Last winter there was that string about “Did I get overcharged?’. I had called a tech about that time because our boiler went out. On the way to the house before ours, someone slid through a light and broadsided the guy in his truck. He was kind/thoughtful enough to call us and explain the situation and arrange to have a friend come to our house. Some people may not have a million dollars cash but do have million dollar class and he is one of them. When the pal he called got our boiler to fire up, I was grateful, to both of them. To sum up: I think if you look close you will see that a lot our differences are less than our similarities. As Red Green say’s, “Hey we’re all in this together.” If you don’t see a manger scene down at city hall, check in your heart to see if there is one there.
And all of you have a Merry Christmas.


But about Paris Hilton and Nascar, he is right.