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 Home & Garden Party Designer, 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, http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/29/foxman/index_np.html), I will agree with 2,000 years of history that Christ is at the center of Christmas.

Merry Christ-mas!