Image courtesy creative commons license flickr.com by midiman 1/23/06 Go through your home and label things minus the word "Christ". That is go to the Christmas tree and put a sign that says Mas Tree. Take away baby Jesus from the mangers, put a sign on gifts as Mas Gifts, Mas Cards, Mas Decorations, Mas ornaments, Mas lights… etc. Try to block out anything with a picture of Christ. Make a sign that says Christmas so your children can see the difference in the words and spelling.
Then ask your children what is going on? What word is missing? This is terrible!! Does this feel wrong to anyone? Does it feel like something is missing in our home?
Read them the quote by President Ezra Taft Benson:
“Keeping Christ in Christmas,” Ensign, Dec 1993, 2
“Without Christ there would be no Christmas, and without Christ there can be no fullness of joy.”
Fix all your signs by adding the word Christ. Say the letters together. Fix all the mangers and pictures. Stress again that without Christ, there is no fullness of joy or happiness!! We need our Savior!!!
1 comment:
Like you said MAS is all you are left with if you take out Christ in the word Christmas. Now, MAS in Spanish means More. So, more gifts, more trees, more cards, more ornaments, more lights. It is almost like what you see at the mall. Basically without Christ we are left with a very worldly, meaningless, shallow Christmas. It is very easy to get caught up in this kind of attitude since that is all around us. Thank you for your blogs that help us to remember and keep things in perspective, and let us all be more diligent in remembering the true meaning of Christmas
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