Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
We could start calling it FishMas, and use that Fish symbol instead of the "X."
Okay. It's a stretch.
I DON'T think that the majority of the world makes Christmas about Christ. But then again, we don't control the climate of any other household except ours. We just do our best to make things centered around God and godliness, and have a clear conscience.
Fortunately, SHOPPING has NEVER violated my convictions. Okay, ONE time it did, because I spent a truckload of money on myself because I was mad at my husband for forgetting our anniversary, but that is another topic.
Well. Not a truckload. But around $500.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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