Twas the Month Before Christmas

Hi folks,
The following parody on the oh so familiar Christmas poem was included in our most recent church bulletin and I thought it was the perfect response to the assault on Christmas and the Christian aspect of this most important holiday.

I give you - "Twas the Month Before Christmas"

Twas the month before Christmas, when all through our land, not a Christian was praying, nor taking a stand.

See, why the PC Police had taken away the reason for Christmas - no one could say. The children were told by their schools not to sing about Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things. It might hurt people's feelings the teachers would say, and December 25th is just a "holiday".

Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks, and credit, pushing folks down to the floor just to get it! CD's from Madonna, an X-Box, and I-pod, something was changing, something quite odd! Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa in hopes to sell books by Franken and Fonda.

As Target Stores hung their trees upside down, at Lowe's the word Christmas was nowhere to be found. At K-Mart and Staples and Penney's and Sears, you won't hear the word Christmas - it won't touch your ears.

Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty, are words that were used to intimidate me.

Now Daschle, now Darden, now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzer - on Barack, on Reid, on Boxer, on clinton! At the top of the Senate there arose such a clatter, to eliminate Jesus in all public matter.

And we spoke not a word as they took away our faith, forbidden to speak of salvation and grace. The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded. The Reason for the Season stopped before it had started.

So, as you celebrate "Winter Break" under your "Dream tree", choose your words carefully, choose what you say.

Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday!

Please, all Christians, join together and wish everyone you meet during the holidays a MERRY CHRISTMAS.

CHRIST is the Reason for the Christmas Season!