What’s In A Name?

Is somebody Stealing Christmas?

By Lisa DeClue

December, 2005

Have you seen the change?  Have you noticed that at this time of year we now have "holiday" parties and send "holiday" cards?  The innocent-seeming switch from "Christmas" to the innocuous "holiday" description is an insidious invader.  Instead of Jesus as the Reason for the Season, we are to "celebrate" vaguery in a mediocre way.

The TV talk shows and radio stations are adding fuel to this pine-scented fire and managers and school officials are scurrying to be politically correct.   The debate really isn’t that difficult to work through if you hold onto your priorities.

As a Decorator, I sell lots of angels, prints, candles and other items within a Christian theme because this is a Christian company and I am a follower of Jesus Christ.  I call things as I see them and this time of year is the preparation for the coming of the King, so why would I diminish the wonder and excitement inherent in the occasion by changing it’s message?

This is the Christmas season, I sell Christmas home décor items and my family celebrates the birth of Christ.  I support Crèches at City Hall, religious Christmas carols, performances of Handel’s Messiah, getting together for Christmas parties and retaining the Christmas spirit in my newsletter.  I support faith-based initiatives and an end to the culture wars.  I will work for a return to the Christian values of the foundation of America and yearn for Americans to seek Jesus as their personal Savior.

Rather than a fabrication by hysterical conservatives and Christian extremists (as an article at Salon.com implies), I will agree with 2,000 years of history that Christ is at the center of Christmas.

Merry Christ-mas!