To my friends and family that I have not greeted with the well wishes of a Merry Christmas, to you, Merry Christmas. Every year it seems that I slip further behind in my "to do list". No tree this year. That's right. No tree. I was going to do it, you know buy a "fake" one. I had my mind made up. But then I saw the $200.00 price tag and choked. I mean, really. Why buy a 6.5 footer when the stupid thing is going to last for the rest of your life and you have a space for a 9 footer. But not for $200. I just don't want a tree that bad. I can not do $200.00. I could just wait until after Christmas and hit the sale, but you know, that just adds to my Christmas tree angst. Really, buying a fake tree on sale????? Is that really enough for our Savior's celebration?
But then it is not about the Christmas tree at all, is it? Or IS it? Seems as though it just may be as there are those of "mine" that are upset over this dilema I really have struggled with for a couple of years now. In the past, I have always broken down and paid some stupid, really stupid, high price for a real one and dressed it up. And many of those years, we did not have the money....but we did have plastic. A real tree with a plastic card. What an interesting concept. Kind of symbolizes where many of us are now in today's economic sitchiashun. No, we are not having a tree this year.
How about just a decorated mantel and a Nativity creche. I don't even have that much done. But I do have 350 11pm service bulletins, 700 for 5:30 and 7:00, and will have another 600 for the 4:00 contemporary service hopefully today. That's another story.....I'll get to that, maybe after Christmas.
I will leave you for now with this: Celebrate the birth of our dear baby Jesus. Look to the life He gave for us ~ the one that redeemed our very own. Watch for His return.
Oh come, Oh come, Emmanuel.
1 comment:
Christmas trees in Oregon are usually a flat rate $10-$15 any size, kind, shape. But we have a plastic one at the moment. Have a Very Merry Chistmas..
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