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Say it Out Loud\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

Merry Christmas!<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I enjoyed listening to a conversation today on the Bob Branco production of\u00a0 In Perspective\u00a0 \u2013 the discussion was about\u00a0 celebrating Christmas. The link is below my article.<\/p>\n

This reminded me of my own Christmas activities as a child.<\/p>\n

I was born in the \u00a0summer of 1943; my father was drafted shortly after my birth,\u00a0 into World War II. I never saw him for 2 years as he was in Europe with Patton\u2019s troops. \u00a0My mother and her sister, Jeanne,\u00a0 lived together to survive and of course my aunt helped raise me during these two years. Even though I was a baby in a crib, I have memories of this time in my life – they are my earliest memories. I remember Christmas most of all during my entire childhood.\u00a0 It is the most joyous time in my life over the years.<\/p>\n

In my new book, Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems,<\/em> I have a chapter for each month of the year. I begin the book with January, and finish it with December.\u00a0 The book is a walk through the year, month by month. It is a series of memoirs and poems. For the December chapter at the end of the book, I \u00a0focused on 2 events that took place at Christmas time.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Western Pennsylvania Christmas,\u201d is a \u00a0story about childhood \u00a0and our family traditions at Christmas. My story\u00a0 ends with my revelation of a unique and unwanted gift I received.<\/p>\n

The other story was of my mother\u2019s final Christmas in her home.\u00a0 That story is, \u201cThe Living Room.\u201d In this story, I share her personal history and her final days of life living with Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

Today, in America, there is something so compelling about Christmas, that no matter how many years we live, we retain the living stories of past Christmases. The stories remain inside of us.\u00a0 I love the Christmas music stations on the radio. Bob and I listen to our local station from the time when we get up and it plays all day. We are inspired, delighted and filled with happiness as we listen and sing along during our days. There are many times during the year when I reach into my cupboard and pull out a Christmas CD and let it play. This joyful music can lift my spirit no matter the season.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is a TIMELESS TRUTH that is OUR BEDROCK.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Christians can stand strong and look up. Our Jehovah God reigns for all times and in all ages. Christmas music affirms what we know, that our God loves us with an everlasting love. And, this is precisely what the perpetrators of the current trend to try to erase our history wants to destroy. This hatred of Christianity has existed from the beginning when the ruling king\u00a0 of that time ordered all children under the age of 2, to be killed in an effort\u00a0 to rid the world of our Savior, Jesus.\u00a0 But wait, it begins even further back in history than this example.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Why is there a movement <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

to take away\u00a0 All Things Christmas?<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

I believe we can really trace this question back all the way through history and into the ancient past.\u00a0 It has to do with God\u2019s intervention in the world, and his leading of\u00a0people whom\u00a0he holds close to his heart.\u00a0 He is the Creator of all that exists, and that creation story \u00a0includes human beings. Our first ancestors were given everything they would ever need and they even had a nightly visit with God in which they walked and talked with him and had fellowship with their own Creator. We all know what happened to interrupt their fellowship \u2013 they chose fear and distrust of their Creator over love.\u00a0 Since that time, the fellowship we enjoy as God\u2019s creation\u00a0is challenged and persecuted. Fear and hated of a Holy God exists yet today in our time.<\/p>\n

We can see it when we understand\u00a0 our own human history.<\/p>\n

The Judeo-Christian World View is challenged<\/h3>\n

by lovers of confusion and destruction.<\/h3>\n

It’s an OLD STORY.<\/h3>\n

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Unbelievers are trying to STEAL CHRISTMAS.<\/h3>\n

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Say it OUT LOUD.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jesus is Lord of All.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Merry Christmas.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Listen to a Discussion of Christmas\u00a0 InPerspective with Bob and Al:<\/p>\n

In Perspective 31 – 12\/16\/2018 – Christmas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n