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--- "Dwiggins, Tish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: Christmas, Who started it?
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:25:49 -0600
> From: "Dwiggins, Tish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Christmas, Who started it?
>
>
> This morning I heard a story on the radio of a woman
> who was out
> Christmas shopping with her two children. After many
> hours of
> looking at row after row of toys and everything else
> imaginable, and
> after hours of hearing both her children asking for
> everything they
> saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to
> the elevator with her
> two kids.
>
> She was feeling what so many of us feel during the
> holiday season time
> of the year. Overwhelming pressure to go to every
> party,
> every housewarming, taste all the holiday food and
> treats, getting that
> perfect gift for every single person on our shopping
> list, making
> sure we don't forget anyone on our card list, and
> the pressure of making
> sure we respond to everyone who sent us a card.
>
> Finally the elevator doors opened and there was
> already a crowd in the
> car. She pushed her way into the car and dragged her
> two kids in
> with her and all the bags of stuff. When the doors
> closed she couldn't
> take it anymore and stated, "Whoever started this
> whole
> Christmas thing should be found, strung up and
> shot."
>
> From the back of the car everyone heard a quiet calm
> voice respond,
> "Don't worry, we already crucified him." For the
> rest of
> the trip down the elevator it was so quiet you could
> have heard a pin
> drop.
>
> Don't forget this year to keep the One who started
> this whole Christmas
> thing in your every thought, deed, purchase, and
> word. If
> we all did it, just think of how different this
> whole world would be.
>
>
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