MInTheGap

As mentioned by bipolarfrenzy yesterday,
it is pretty frustrating that Christmas is being erased by our
society.  I can remember my parents getting a “Christmas Club” account
from the local bank only a few years ago.  This past year when I
decided to start one, the bank only offered a “Holiday Club” account.

To be fair, some companies must believe something about the way people
are or what will happen if they continue to recognize Christmas:

1. That if they do recognize it, they will be sued, boycotted, or denounced  by the ACLU, AUSCS, etc.
2. That
   by recognizing all the holidays they will somehow get customers that
   may stay home due to the fact that they don’t celebrate Christmas.
3. That
   the grinches at the top of their companies that want to stay in touch
   with what they believe society is doing will not be pleased.

Probably, the profit one (2) is the biggest excuse they have.  There’s
nothing stopping said stores from setting up departments for the
different holidays– you know, one for Christmas, et al.  Even the
Christmas displays usually emphasize Satan– I mean, Santa– and the
elves more than Christ.

I guess the question that we as
Christians have to ask ourselves is, is the change from Merry Christmas
to Happy Holidays really a bad one?  Stay with me here, and think this
through.

One of the major complaints that I have heard lately
is how commercialized Christmas has become.  The emphasis is more on
the gifts than The GIFT.  The time is full of hectic mayhem, defined
more by how much profit is made than what is given.  Just look up how
many articles are written about WalMart and its profits Black Friday
and what it did to the stock market versus how much your local church
has done for those in need in the community– or churches anywhere for
that matter.

Could the silver lining of the ignoring of the
true meaning of Christmas really help to purify the thing?  Could
Christians recapture Christmas to mean Christ’s birth, and start a
trend where companies that don’t want to recognize it, but want our
money are forced to stop the way they are treating Christmas.

I’m not saying that we should give up the holiday.  What I am saying is
that we have the power at our disposal to change events regardless of
stores ad campaigns or town parades.  We can organize food distribution
programs.  We can get groups together to go out caroling.  We can
proclaim Merry Christmas from our houses and offices.  I always get
this evil type grin when my company has a “Christmas luncheon” knowing
that the secularists haven’t won here yet.

If we could, each
one of us, witness, spread the word about Christ, and actually changed
people’s hearts about this thing, then society, parades and stores
would follow.

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